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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    Call for media: First data release from ESA's Gaia mission / Press Releases / For Media / ESA
    http://www.esa.int/...Media/Press_Releases/Call_for_media_First_data_release_from_ESA_s_Gaia_mission
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    The Odd Couple: Quasars and Black Holes | Institute for Advanced Study
    https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/tremaine-quasars
    Black holes are among the strangest predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity: regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong
    that nothing—not even light—can escape. More precisely, a black hole is a singularity in spacetime surrounded by an event horizon, a surface
    that acts as a perfect one-way membrane: matter and radiation can enter the event horizon, but, once inside, can never escape. Remarkably,
    an isolated, uncharged black hole is completely characterized by only two parameters: its mass, and its spin or angular momentum.

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    Carnegie Scientists Discover Twin Stars Hosting Giant Planets
    http://www.azoquantum.com/news.aspx?newsID=4883
    Scientists from Carnegie have identified three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar
    ''twins'' that are siblings of the Sun. One star hosts two planets and the third one is hosted by the other star.
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    Images From Sun’s Edge Reveal Origins of Solar Wind
    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/images-from-sun-s-edge-reveal-origins-of-solar-wind
    Ever since the 1950s discovery of the solar wind – the constant flow of charged particles from the sun – there’s been a stark disconnect between this outpouring
    and the sun itself. As it approaches Earth, the solar wind is gusty and turbulent. But near the sun where it originates, this wind is structured in distinct rays,
    much like a child’s simple drawing of the sun. The details of the transition from defined rays in the corona, the sun’s upper atmosphere, to the solar wind have
    been, until now, a mystery.

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    Comet dust flyover
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52y_7-fBvM


    Imaging tiny comet dust in 3D | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser
    http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/08/31/imaging-tiny-comet-dust-in-3d/

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    Exclusive Interview with Clyde Tombaugh, Discoverer of Pluto.
    Conducted March 31, 1996

    https://medium.com/...usive-interview-with-clyde-tombaugh-discoverer-of-pluto-2062580e919#.6cx1t1aaq

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    It'll be an amazing breakthrough if we finally discover intelligent life on Earth!
    SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth - Slashdot
    https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/08/31/2027218/setis-strong-signal-came-from-earth
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    Stunning fireball on August 30
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmKAumU-nU&feature=youtu.be
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    Pluto’s Methane Snowcaps on the Edge of Darkness
    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-methane-snowcaps-on-the-edge-of-darkness
    The southernmost part of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could “see” during closest approach in July 2015 contains a range
    of fascinating geological features, and offers clues into what might lurk in the regions shrouded in darkness during the flyby.

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    Near-Earth Asteroid 2016 QA2 extremely close encounter: an exceptional image and movie (28 Aug. 2016)
    http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/...qa2-extremely-close-encounter-exceptional-image-movie-28-aug-2016/

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    Solar System Exploration
    http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2016/08/31/dawn-sets-course-for-higher-orbit
    After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit,
    NASA's Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet.

    Dawn has delivered a wealth of images and other data from its current perch at 385 km
    above Ceres' surface, which is closer to the dwarf planet than the International Space
    Station is to Earth. Now, the mission team is pivoting to consider science questions
    that can be examined from higher up.

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    Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
    http://www.esa.int/...h/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Copernicus_Sentinel-1A_satellite_hit_by_space_particle
    ESA engineers have discovered that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimetre-size particle in orbit on 23 August.
    Thanks to onboard cameras, ground controllers were able to identify the affected area. So far, there has been no effect on the satellite’s routine operations.

    A sudden small power reduction was observed in a solar array of Sentinel-1A, orbiting at 700 km altitude, at 17:07 GMT on 23 August. Slight changes in
    the orientation and the orbit of the satellite were also measured at the same time.

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    http://www.wired.com/2016/08/cluster-big-earthquakes-rattles-icelands-katla-volcano/
    UPDATE 8/29 at 8 PM EDT: The IMO has now reported that flow in the Múlakvísl River, which flows out from under Mýrdalsjökull,
    has increased and has high concentrations of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. Both of these are common gases related to
    hydrothermal fluids (heated from magmatic sources). This is a common occurrence when earthquake swarms have disturbed the Katla
    caldera and is not likely directly linked to any change in eruption likelihood.
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    The horizontal silver box behind the people on the lift is the electronics for ALL THE SCIENCE. Installed yesterday into JWST!

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    Making the case for an ice giants mission | Astronomy.com
    http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/03/jpl-scientists-make-the-case-for-a-trip-to-the-ice-giants

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    EAT #08 - Birr Castle and the Leviathan Telescope
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_wXCOH7fA
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    Discovery one-ups Tatooine, finds twin stars hosting three giant exoplanets | Carnegie Institution for Science
    https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2084
    A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our Sun.
    One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. The system represents the smallest-separation binary in which both stars host planets that has ever been observed.
    The findings, which may help explain the influence that giant planets like Jupiter have over a solar system’s architecture, have been accepted for publication in
    The Astronomical Journal.

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    ICON Payload Integration TimeLapse
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jNpW-72mM
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    ESA Science & Technology: First stars formed even later than previously thought
    http://sci.esa.int/planck/58193-first-stars-formed-even-later-than-previously-thought/
    ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations
    of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows that these stars were the only sources needed
    to account for reionising atoms in the cosmos, having completed half of this process when the Universe had reached an age
    of 700 million years.

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    [1608.08620] The Habitability of Proxima Centauri b: II: Environmental States and Observational Discriminants
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08620

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