Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
By Preston Dyches, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2933/titans-dunes-and-other-features-emerge-in-new-images/

The Milky Way’s Heart May Have Stopped Forming Stars | IFLScience
http://www.iflscience.com/space/the-milky-ways-heart-may-have-stopped-forming-stars/
The closer you get to the center of the galaxy, the more crowded it becomes with stars, at least until reaching the black hole at its core.
However, a survey of the Milky Way’s inner reaches suggests there is a near-complete shortage of young stars around the central hub, throwing
a major query into our view of galactic evolution, and how things may one day look.

Cepheid variables are an exceptionally valuable tool in understanding the universe. These supergiant stars pulse in brightness on a regular
cycle related to how much light they emit on average. By measuring the length of a Cepheid’s cycle, it is possible to work out how bright
it truly is, enabling us to determine its distance. This property has allowed us to measure the scale of our own and nearby galaxies.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/visualizing-hurricanes/

Solar System Exploration
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries/juno-how-do-jupiter-and-earth-compare

Dust devil for 2 minutes at MSFC construction site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrIe4ALYHRE

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Scientists Discover What Extraordinary Compounds May Be Hidden Inside Uranus and Neptune
http://www.astrowatch.net/2016/09/scientists-discover-what-extraordinary.html

Through the looking glass: a look down a TESS camera barrel at MIT Lincoln Laboratory:

http://physicsworld.com/...st-stars-and-galaxies-are-not-as-old-as-we-thought-say-planck-astronomers
The dark ages of the universe were nearing their end 700 million years after the Big Bang, which is 150 million years later than previous measurements indicated.
That is the conclusion according to astronomers who have analysed data from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft. The research provides important
information about when the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe.

The first billion years of cosmic history are shrouded in mystery. This shroud began to lift when ultraviolet light from the first stars and galaxies ionized
the fog of neutral hydrogen gas that filled the universe. This time period is known as the epoch of reionization and was more or less complete about 12.9 billion
years ago, or about 900 million years after the Big Bang. However, exactly when reionization began has long been a source of debate amongst astronomers.

Massive holes 'punched' through a trail of stars likely caused by dark matter
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-massive-holes-trail-stars-dark.html
The discovery of two massive holes punched through a stream of stars could help answer
questions about the nature of dark matter, the mysterious substance holding galaxies together.

Researchers have detected two massive holes which have been 'punched' through a stream of stars just outside the Milky Way,
and found that they were likely caused by clumps of dark matter, the invisible substance which holds galaxies together and
makes up a quarter of all matter and energy in the universe.

The scientists, from the University of Cambridge, found the holes by studying the distribution of stars in the Milky Way.
While the clumps of dark matter that likely made the holes are gigantic in comparison to our Solar System – with a mass between
one million and 100 million times that of the Sun – they are actually the tiniest clumps of dark matter detected to date.