Dynamical Modelling of the Galactic Bulge and Bar: Pattern Speed, Stellar, and Dark Matter Mass Distributions [GA] | arXiver
https://arxiver.wordpress.com/...nd-bar-pattern-speed-stellar-and-dark-matter-mass-distributions-ga/

R.I.P.

James W. Cronin, a physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for repudiating a fundamental principle of physics and
explaining why the universe survived the Big Bang with anything in it, died on Thursday in St. Paul. He was 84.
http://www.nytimes.com/...ames-cronin-who-explained-why-matter-survived-the-big-bang-dies-at-84.html

Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness - Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physics-confronts-its-heart-of-darkness/
Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it?

Nereid, Third Largest Of Neptune’s Moons (m18.69)
Taken by Dennis Simmons on August 28, 2016 @ Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Round and round the mulberry bush | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/...705681-two-ways-detect-what-you-cannot-see-round-and-round-mulberry-bush

Space Station Cameras Capture Tropical Systems in the Pacific and the Atlantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdouU1IN8TQ

http://futurism.com/new-research-suggests-dark-energy-might-be-the-reason-for-times-arrow/
A new study may have found a link between dark energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics—
suggesting that the very expansion of the universe may impart a direction to time.

Fate of Universe explained through basic Laws of Thermodynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1JknKr99_4

The rise and fall of galaxy formation | Carnegie Institution for Science
https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2083
An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie’s Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history.
Their work, which includes some of the most sensitive astronomical measurements made to date, is published by The Astrophysical Journal.
The FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) has built a multicolored photo album of galaxies as they grow from their faint beginnings into mature
and majestic giants. They did so by measuring distances and brightnesses for more than 70,000 galaxies spanning more than 12 billion years of cosmic
time, revealing the breadth of galactic diversity.

Neat lines of craters etched on the moon's surface, which can't be explained by the red planet's tidal tug,
could have grown in a collision chain reaction.
Martian moon Phobos' grooves caused by collision debris | Cosmos
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/martian-moon-phobos-grooves-caused-by-collision-debris

The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory | ESO
http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1613h/

Three concentric supernova remnants found in nearby galaxy.
http://www.slate.com/...y/2016/08/30/three_concentric_supernova_remnants_found_in_nearby_galaxy.html
Astronomers have found the expanding debris from not one, but three previously unknown supernovae. Better yet: The spherical shells of gas hurled outward
by these explosions are concentric, centered on the same point in space, which means all three stars were very close to each other when they let go.

This weird triple supernova was found using a technique that specifically looks for rapidly moving gas. It involves a special kind of spectrograph that
breaks the incoming light for the sky into very narrow slices of color. The resulting spectrum can reveal a lot of information about an object, including
its composition, speed through space, and more.

Powerful magnetars may give way to small black holes | Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/08/powerful-magnetars-may-have-given-way-to-small-black-holes
The strongest magnets in the universe may have a shorter-than-expected shelf life.

Chandra :: Photo Album :: CL J1001 :: August 30, 2016
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2016/clj1001/
This image contains the most distant galaxy cluster, a discovery made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
and several other telescopes. The galaxy cluster, known as CL J1001+0220, is located about 11.1 billion light years from
Earth and may have been caught right after birth, a brief, but important stage of cluster evolution never seen before.

Animation of Sept. 1 Space Station Spacewalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TYu73B3jc