Protein-like structures from the primordial soup | ETH Zurich
https://www.ethz.ch/...s/eth-news/news/2016/09/protein-like-structures-from-the-primordial-soup.html
Experiments performed by ETH scientists have shown that it is remarkably easy for protein-like, two-dimensional structures – amyloids – to form
from basic building blocks. This discovery supports the researchers’ hypothesis that primal life could have evolved from amyloids such as these.

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Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Cassini's Final Orbits
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7365/
This animation, from Cassini's navigation team, shows the spacecraft's final orbits in 2016 and 2017.

The green-colored orbits already visible at the beginning of the video represent the F-ring orbits, which Cassini will complete between
November 2016 and April 2017. During this set of 20 orbits, the spacecraft approaches to just outside the edge of Saturn's main rings.

The blue-colored orbits represent the Grand Finale orbits, which take place between April and September 2017, leading to Cassini's end-
of-mission plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15.

An animated chart at lower right illustrates how the distance of Cassini's point of closest approach to Saturn changes changes several
times over the course of the Grand Finale. The orange circle represents the orbit of Saturn's moon Titan.

Cassini's Final Orbits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkj3Gvfp8PA

The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing In Earth's History
http://gizmodo.com/the-sixth-mass-extinction-will-be-like-nothing-in-earth-1786598392
The sixth mass extinction—the one that seven billion humans are doing their darnedest to trigger at this very moment—is shaping up
to be like nothing our planet has ever seen. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping new analysis, which compared marine fossil records
from Earth’s five previous mass extinction events to what’s happening in the oceans right now.

Know thy star, know thy planet
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-thy-star-planet.html

When it comes to exoplanets, astronomers have realized that they only know the properties of the planets they discover
as well as they know the properties of the stars being orbited. For a planet's size, precisely characterizing the host
star can mean the difference in our understanding of whether a distant world is small like Earth or huge like Jupiter.

Ancient meteorite impact crater lies under Scotland - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37360696

The only meteorite impact crater to be discovered anywhere in Britain
or Ireland lies beneath a large area of Scotland, a scientist has suggested.

Nice weather at Canberra DSS 43 station tracking Voyager 1 and uplinking a modest 18kw.
The probe is 18 hrs 52 mins 55 secs of light-travel time from Earth.

Pluto ‘Paints’ its Largest Moon Red
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-paints-its-largest-moon-red

Pluto stellar occultation
Gaia > iow_20160914
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20160914
On 19 July 2016, Pluto passed in front of the faint star UCAC4 345-180315, offering a rare chance
to study the atmosphere of the dwarf planet as the star gradually disappeared and then reappeared behind Pluto.

This stellar occultation was only visible from a narrow strip stretching across Europe, similar to the totality path that a solar eclipse
lays down on our planet’s surface. Precise knowledge of the star's position was crucial to correctly compute where on Earth the event was
visible, so the exceptional early release of the Gaia position for this star, which was ten times more precise than previously known, was
instrumental to the successful monitoring of this rare event.