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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    Kamikaze galaxy explodes after diving into the Milky Way  | New Scientist
    https://www.newscientist.com/...le/2106019-kamikaze-galaxy-explodes-after-diving-into-the-milky-way/

    At least 50 galaxies orbit our own. The Hercules dwarf is currently 460,000 light years from Earth,
    nearly three times farther than the Milky Way’s brightest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

    But Hercules’s stars spread over a great expanse of space, which suggests the Milky Way’s gravitational
    pull has yanked them away from one another.

    Now Andreas Küpper and Kathryn Johnston at Columbia University in New York and their colleagues have
    used the observed positions and velocities of the galaxy’s stars to deduce its path through space.

    “It’s plunging in from a really large distance to a really close distance,” Johnston says.

    The astronomers calculate that, at its farthest, the dim galaxy voyages 600,000 light years from
    the Milky Way’s centre. At its closest, though, it’s just 16,000 light years out.

    “That’s extreme,” Küpper says. It’s closer than any other satellite galaxy is known to come. It’s even
    closer than we are – the sun is 27,000 light years from the galactic centre.

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    Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record
    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/arctic-sea-ice-annual-minimum-ties-second-lowest-on-record

    The sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas helps regulate the planet’s temperature,
    influences the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean, and impacts Arctic communities and ecosystems.
    Arctic sea ice shrinks every year during the spring and summer until it reaches its minimum yearly extent.
    Sea ice regrows during the frigid fall and winter months, when the sun is below the horizon in the Arctic.

    Sea Ice Minimum 2016
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJ9DfVhAYw
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    How Certain Are We Of The Universe's 'Big Freeze' Fate?
    http://www.forbes.com/...016/09/15/how-certain-are-we-of-the-universes-big-freeze-fate/#3f34c1ae12cf

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    Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter | New Scientist
    https://www.newscientist.com/...06053-gaias-new-star-map-will-also-reveal-asteroids-and-dark-matter/
    Astronomers will also use the positions of visible stars to map invisible dark matter. The mysterious stuff makes up nearly
    85 per cent of the matter in the universe, and exerts a gravitational pull on all stars, bending their paths as they traverse
    their home galaxy. Any deviations that can’t be explained by the visible matter will be the handiwork of dark matter.

    “Our current paradigm says that dark matter should be lumpy on small scales,” says David Spergel at Princeton University.
    This paradigm is based on the theory that dark matter is composed of massive slow particles that mostly interact through
    the force of gravity. Such lethargic particles will hang around in clusters for a while. But if we find that dark matter
    is smooth rather than lumpy, astronomers might have to come up with alternative explanations.


    Cat’s Eye Nebula: 3000 light years away, as seen by Hubble and Gaia
    NASA/ESA/HEIC/The Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA (background image); ESA/Gaia/DPAC/UB/IEEC (blue points)

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    Black Hole Hidden Within Its Own Exhaust
    http://www.almaobservatory.org/...-room/press-releases/1036-black-hole-hidden-within-its-own-exhaust

    Supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are found at the centers of galaxies. Many of these galactic behemoths
    are hidden within a thick doughnut-shape ring of dust and gas known as a torus. Previous observations suggest these cloaking, tire-like structures
    are formed from the native material found near the center of a galaxy.

    New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), however, reveal that the black hole at the center of a galaxy named NGC 1068
    is actually the source of its own dusty torus of dust and gas, forged from material flung out of the black hole’s accretion disk.

    This newly discovered cosmic fountain of cold gas and dust could reshape our understanding of how black holes impact their host galaxy and
    potentially the intergalactic medium.

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    Mount St. Helens: Back from the Dead • Volcanic Eruption
    https://volcanic-eruption.com/mount-st-helens-back-from-the-dead/

    PBS NOVA Mount St. Helens: Back from the Dead (2010)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuwVykebcMg
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    This 1999 photo shows the fourth 8.2-m VLT Zerodur mirror during the final phase of polishing at REOSC.
    http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9952a/

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    Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet
    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-takes-close-up-look-at-disintegrating-comet

    NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart,
    which occurred 67 million miles from Earth.

    In a series of images taken over a three-day span in January 2016, Hubble revealed 25 building-size blocks made of
    a mixture of ice and dust that are drifting away from the comet at a leisurely pace, about the walking speed of an adult.

    The observations suggest that the roughly 4.5-billion-year-old comet, named 332P/Ikeya-Murakami, or Comet 332P, may be
    spinning so fast that material is ejected from its surface. The resulting debris is now scattered along a 3,000-mile-long
    trail, larger than the width of the continental U.S.

    These observations provide insight into the volatile behavior of comets as they approach the sun and begin to vaporize,
    unleashing dynamical forces. Comet 332P was 150 million miles from the sun, slightly beyond the orbit of Mars,
    when Hubble spotted the breakup.

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    Starving Black Hole Returns Brilliant Galaxy to the Shadows | ESO
    http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1631/

    The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved by an international
    team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. It
    seems that the black hole has fallen on hard times and is no longer being fed enough fuel to make its surroundings shine.

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    Bayesian View of Galaxy Evolution | Galaxy Zoo
    https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2016/09/14/bayesian-view-of-galaxy-evolution/

    By Peter McGill

    The Universe is pretty huge, and to understand it we need to collect vast amounts of data. The Hubble Telescope is just one of many telescopes
    collecting data from the Universe. Hubble alone produces 17.5 GB of raw science data each week. That means since its launch to low earth orbit
    in April 1990, it’s collected roughly a block of data equivalent in size to 6 million mp3 songs! With the launch of NASA’s James Webb Telescope
    just around the corner, the amount of raw data we can collect from the Universe is going to escalate dramatically. In order to decipher what
    this data is telling us about the Universe we need to use sophisticated statistical techniques. In this post I want to talk a bit about
    a particular technique I’ve been using called a Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo (MCMC) simulation to learn about galaxy evolution.
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    Oujéé! v pinďulí - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9lIPUjFe40

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    The largest Campo del Cielo meteorite is El Chaco at 37 tons!
    Panoramio - Photo of Meteorito El Chaco - Parque Pigüen O´xana - Campo del Cielo - Gancedo, Chaco - Argentina.
    http://www.panoramio.com/photo/102732592

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    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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    Přesně za rok!

    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
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    Kepler confirms three worlds 40 light-years away are Earth-sized
    https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/...388/kepler-confirms-three-worlds-40-light-years-away-are-earth-sized/
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    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.
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    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.

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    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.

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    Discovering the unknown: the world's largest radio telescope
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_q6kB2nCdw
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    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.

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