Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2ubCR3suE

Gaia spies two temporarily magnified stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-gaia-spies-temporarily-magnified-stars.html

While scanning the sky to measure the position of over one billion stars in our Galaxy, ESA's Gaia satellite has detected
two rare instances of stars whose light was temporarily boosted by other celestial objects passing across their lines of
sight. One of these stars is expected to brighten again soon. Gaia's measurements will be instrumental to learn more about
the nature of these 'cosmic magnifying glasses'.

Space debris: how many operating, dysfunctional & dead satellites & spacecrafts orbiting our planet (per country)

Hunt for ninth planet reveals new extremely distant Solar System objects | Carnegie Institution for Science
https://carnegiescience.edu/.../hunt-ninth-planet-reveals-new-extremely-distant-solar-system-objects

In the race to discover a proposed ninth planet in our Solar System, Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University
have observed several never-before-seen objects at extreme distances from the Sun in our Solar System. Sheppard and Trujillo have now submitted their
latest discoveries to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center for official designations. A paper about the discoveries has also
been accepted to The Astronomical Journal.

The more objects that are found at extreme distances, the better the chance of constraining the location of the ninth planet that Sheppard and Trujillo
first predicted to exist far beyond Pluto (itself no longer classified as a planet) in 2014. The placement and orbits of small, so-called extreme trans-
Neptunian objects, can help narrow down the size and distance from the Sun of the predicted ninth planet, because that planet’s gravity influences
the movements of the smaller objects that are far beyond Neptune. The objects are called trans-Neptunian because their orbits around the Sun
are greater than Neptune’s.

Radiation, Brains, and Exploring the Universe - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/radiation-brains-and-exploring-the-universe/
New studies indicate that ionizing radiation might cause neurodegenerative disease.
The implications could be profound for interplanetary or interstellar species.

Plate tectonics doesn’t rumple the surfaces of Earth’s supersized cousins, new research suggests.
Super-Earths are not a good place for plate tectonics | Geology IN
http://www.geologyin.com/2016/04/super-earths-are-not-good-place-for.html

Simulating the extreme pressures inside giant exoplanets called super-Earths, researchers discovered that these planets probably have thick,
stagnant outer shells and sluggish internal circulation. Those properties make the existence of fragmented jigsaw puzzles of sliding and
shifting surface sections unlikely, the researchers report in a paper to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

On Earth, plate tectonics drives the carbon cycle that helps regulate the planet’s temperature and allows life to flourish, notes study
coauthor Takehiro Miyagoshi, an earth and planetary scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokohama.

“We think super-Earths are boring,” he says. “This point should be kept in mind in our search of habitable planets.”

XCHAOS: haha, i tak se to da vnimat.

TANTRAMAN: naopak: to, že s námi nekomunikují, je právě důkaz toho, že jsou inteligentní :-)

VIRGO: to je presne ted duvod, proc v okoli nikdo neni. a jestli ano, tak bez moznosti signal prijmout a odvysilat odpoved.
jednoduche jako facka.

News | Catalog of Known Near-Earth Asteroids Tops 15,000
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6664

The number of discovered near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) now tops 15 000, with an average of 30 new discoveries added each week.
This milestone marks a 50 percent increase in the number of known NEAs since 2013, when discoveries reached 10,000 in August of that year.

Surveys funded by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program (NEOs include both asteroids and comets) account for more than 95 percent of discoveries so far.

The 15 000th near-Earth asteroid is designated *2016 TB57*. It was discovered on Oct. 13 by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina
Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona. 2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid - about 16 to 36 meters in size - that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times
the distance of the moon. It will safely pass Earth.

Boyajians Star from Breakthrough Listen at 10.4 GHz. Axes are frequency (vertical) vs time (horizontal)

Bright fireball captured by a dashcam over Denver, Colorado on October 27, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sESqNYBimbQ&feature=youtu.be