Wayward Field Lines Challenge Solar Radiation Models
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/wayward-field-lines-challenge-solar-radiation-models

In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation that propel
high-energy particles toward Earth. These solar energetic particles, or SEPs, can impact astronauts or satellites. To fully
understand these particles, scientists must look to their source: the bursts of solar radiation.

Wayward Field Lines Challenge Solar Radiation Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXECwlnJWSo

European Mars lander released from ExoMars mothership – Spaceflight Now
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/10/17/european-mars-lander-released-from-exomars-mothership/

A saucer-shaped entry, descent and landing demonstrator separated from Europe’s ExoMars orbiter Sunday,
beginning a three-day approach aiming to become the first European-built craft to set down on the red planet and return data.

Named for Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer who charted the first rudimentary maps of Mars in the 19th century,
the landing probe is heading for a target in Meridiani Planum, an expansive plain near the Martian equator.

Schiaparelli deployed from a pod on its carrier craft, an instrument-laden satellite heading into orbit around Mars,
as scheduled at 1442 GMT (10:42 a.m. EDT) Sunday, and each spacecraft is heading off on separate missions.

Both elements — built by Thales Alenia Space — are part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars program in partnership with Russia,
which was responsible for launching the mission. The next phase of the ExoMars mission will come in 2020 with the launch of
a European-built rover on another Russian rocket.

Pár infografik o EHT:
10 Fascinating Facts About the World's Most Powerful Telescope | Perimeter Institute
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/node/102583

This image taken in August at The University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab shows the progress on GMT Segment 2
with the edging and beveling operations. "Polishing" will come later, as this is the diamond machining phase.

The Stage Is Set For Tuesday’s Thirty Meter Telescope Hearing (Civil Beat) | Sacred Mauna Kea
https://sacredmaunakea.wordpress.com/...-set-for-tuesdays-thirty-meter-telescope-hearing-civil-beat/

NASA's 'Large Strategic' Science Missions Under the Microscope | American Institute of Physics
https://www.aip.org/fyi/2016/nasas-large-strategic-science-missions-under-microscope
On Oct. 5 and 6, a National Academies committee studying NASA’s large strategic science missions held a meeting at which NASA officials
and current and former congressional staff members presented. Committee members and presenters confronted pressing questions concerning
what role the missions play in accomplishing the agency’s science goals and in sustaining broader scientific communities.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/nion-asp101316.php

A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics.
However, it is still unclear how this diversity emerges. Especially, there is still debate about how the icy giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, form.

To take a close look at the planet formation site, a research team led by Takashi Tsukagoshi at Ibaraki University, Japan, observed the young star TW Hydrae.
This star, estimated to be 10 million years old, is one of the closest young stars to the Earth. Thanks to the proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation
points roughly in the Earth's direction, giving us a face-on-view of the developing planetary system, TW Hydrae is one of the most favorable targets for
investigating planet formation.

A Novel Approach to Studying a Star's Environment from Light Curvessu201640 | www.cfa.harvard.edu/
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/su201640

There are now about 2700 confirmed exoplanets discovered by transiting techniques including those used with the Kepler satellite.
The transit method observes the stellar light curve (the flux versus time), and spots the slight dimming of starlight when an exoplanet
crosses the face of the star as seen from Earth. The orbital period of the exoplanet can be determined from multiple transits, with the
duration and details of the transit dip providing a measure of the planet's size. Light curves actually monitor a number physical processes
including some at the stellar surface (like sunspots) as well as in their surroundings. Periodic variability of the observed stellar flux
has long been used to measure stellar rotation periods, for example; transiting exoplanets produce a characteristic shape in the light curve.

A Novel Approach to OSETI - Eliot Gillum(SETI Talks 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlFSCpo5xAo

Jennifer Eigenbrode - Life on Mars - 19th Annual International Mars Society Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XhYeUojrRo


Dr. Geronimo Villanueva - Search for Life - 19th Annual International Mars Society Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfKHMiMq5uw

ExoMars update: Timeline for separation and orbit insertion | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/10140937-exomars-timeline.html

VIRGO:
Hubblecast 96: How many galaxies are there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEbLT_U0XyY