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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    Meteor Activity Outlook for Nov 5-11 by AMS
    http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/11/meteor-activity-outlook-for-november-5-11-2016/

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    On this day, in 1572, a supernova was first noted by Wolfgang Schuler of Wittenberg in the W-shaped
    constellation of Cassiopeia but was seen by many observers throughout Europe and in the Far East.

    It appeared as a new star, adjacent to the fainter star seen just northwest of the middle of the "W."
    Tycho Brahe first noticed this new star on 11 Nov 1572, and he began to meticulously record its appearance.
    Although he was not the first to see it, he gained fame from his book Stella Nova (Latin: "new star"). For
    two weeks it was brighter than any other star in the sky and visible in daytime. By month's end, it began
    to fade and change color, from bright white to yellow and orange to faint reddish light. It was visible
    to the naked eye for about 16 months until Mar 1574



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    It's scaring off animals. And no one can explain what it is
    Canadian Community Tries To Solve Mystery of Sea Floor Noise
    http://time.com/4558184/unknown-noise-sea-floor-canada/

    A mysterious noise emanating from the sea floor in one of Canada’s northern territories
    has been puzzling locals and officials, who have yet to identify its source.

    The sound has been heard throughout Fury and Hecla strait, a channel of water in the Nunavut region,
    and has proven to be a mystery for the local community. The remote area is located in the northernmost
    territory of Canada, where some residents rely on hunting for their food supplies.

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    VIRGO: Nejtajemnější aktuátory v rameni Orionu... :))

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    I-Team: Nuclear reactor test in Nevada could make a Mars trip
    http://www.lasvegasnow.com/...s/i-team-nuclear-reactor-test-in-nevada-could-make-a-mars-trip-reality

    This story may sound like the plot of a science-fiction movie.

    Next year, a team of top scientists will hunker down inside a classified facility
    in the Nevada desert so they can experiment with a piece of advanced technology.

    The test will focus on a small nuclear reactor and if it works as planned,
    it could be a huge step toward putting humans on Mars.

    In the hit movie, "The Martian," stranded astronaut Matt Damon has one heck of
    a time surviving and getting around in the harsh environment of the red planet.

    Scientists and engineers think that getting to Mars, and establishing a base,
    will require a better power system than what was shown in the film.
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    Why NASA blurred out a James Webb Space Telescope mirror - Business Insider
    http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-telescope-video-secret-2016-11
    To commemorate the moment of telescope´s primary mirror completion, NASA Goddard released a dramatic video about the telescope on YouTube.

    "The efforts of thousands of people across the United States, Canada, and Europe, for almost two decades achieved this milestone," the narrator said.
    "Getting to this point wasn't easy. ... Before astrophysicists' dreams of building Webb could be realized, 10 technologies that did not exist needed
    to be created and perfected. They were."

    The video shows off many of those revolutionary technologies, including lightweight support structures, sensors, and more.

    But we noticed that a crucial part of the telescope — about a minute and 30 seconds into the video — is blurred out beyond recognition:

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    Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg says current debates suggest need for new approach to comprehend reality
    Why quantum mechanics might need an overhaul | Science News
    https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/why-quantum-mechanics-might-need-overhaul

    Steven Weinberg used to be happy with quantum mechanics as it is and didn’t worry about the debates.
    But as he has thought about it over the years, the 83-year-old Nobel laureate has reassessed.

    “Now I’m not so sure,” he declared October 30 in San Antonio at a session for science writers organized by the Council for
    the Advancement of Science Writing. “I’m not as happy about quantum mechanics as I used to be, and not as dismissive of its critics.”

    One reason Weinberg thinks there’s a need for a new chapter in the quantum story is that those who think everything is fine with
    quantum mechanics take different sides in the debates about it.

    “It’s a bad sign in particular that those physicists who are happy about quantum mechanics, and see nothing wrong with it, don’t
    agree with each other about what it means,” Weinberg says.
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    If the solar system was a continent.

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    Beijing continues to suffer from heavy smog on Sat, large number of flights cancelled.
    via People's Daily, China



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    JWST Artist Event (with images, tweets) · JWSTFan · Storify
    https://storify.com/JWSTFan/jwst-artist-event



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    Studying how the first biomolecule self-replicated - Astrobiology Magazine
    http://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/origin-life-studying-first-biomolecule-self-replicated/

    It’s the ultimate chicken-or-egg conundrum: What was the “mother” molecule that led to the formation of life? And how did it replicate itself? One prominent
    school of thought proposes that RNA is the answer to the first question. Now, in ACS Central Science, researchers in this camp demonstrate RNA has more
    flexibility in how it recognizes itself than previously believed. The finding might change how we picture the first chemical steps towards replication and life.
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    NSF to Decide Fate of Arecibo by June 2017, Green Bank by Winter 2017-18
    https://www.aip.org/fyi/2016/nsf-decide-fate-arecibo-june-2017-green-bank-winter-2017-18
    NSF is currently undertaking a formal process by which it will determine whether or not to divest from the Arecibo
    and Green Bank Observatories, with final decisions for each facility expected within the next year and a half.
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    http://www.forbes.com/...6/11/04/five-independent-signs-of-new-physics-in-the-universe/#618959dd8b6e
    The Higgs boson has been created and observed to have a mass of 126 GeV/c2, branching and decaying in exactly the ratios the Standard Model predicts.
    As it now stands, we’ve detected every particle and antiparticle predicted by the most successful particle physics theory of all time. Unless we get
    hit by a big physics surprise, the LHC will become renowned for having found the Higgs Boson and nothing else fundamental. If these results hold,
    there’s no window into what lies beyond the Standard Model coming from traditional experimental particle physics.

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    Pár hodin staré SETI Talks:
    The History of the Martian South Polar Cap - Carver Bierson
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQ_exfk7GA
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    These are late 1600s notes by Giovanni Cassini on the discovery of moons of Saturn from the Paris Observatory

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    NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far
    northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29­­­­ and 30, 2016.
    News | Watching Summer Clouds on Titan
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6670

    Summer Clouds on Saturn's Moon Titan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0seT55Jk4Ko
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    Tsunami of Stars and Gas Produces Dazzling Eye-shaped Feature in Galaxy - NRAO: Revealing the Hidden Universe
    https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/2016-alma-eyelid

    Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk
    of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of material – which was triggered when IC 2163 recently sideswiped another spiral galaxy dubbed NGC 2207 –
    produced dazzling arcs of intense star formation that resemble a pair of eyelids.

    “Although galaxy collisions of this type are not uncommon, only a few galaxies with eye-like, or ocular, structures are known to exist,” said Michele Kaufman,
    an astronomer formerly with The Ohio State University in Columbus and lead author on a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal.

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    Capturing Martian Weather in Motion | The Planetary Society
    http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2016/1104-capturing-martian-weather-in-motion.html

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    Scientists catalog nearly 100 dusty globules in the Crab Nebula
    http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists-dusty-globules-crab-nebula.html

    Researchers from Sweden have recently studied the presence of dust in the Crab Nebula to locate and characterize numerous dusty globules of this well-known supernova remnant.
    As a result, they have cataloged 92 dusty globules and derived their properties. A paper describing the research was published Oct. 26 on the arXiv pre-print repository.

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    ESA Science & Technology: Mars' ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
    http://sci.esa.int/mars-express/58554-mars-ionosphere-shaped-by-crustal-magnetic-fields/
    Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet's upper atmosphere,
    according to observations from ESA's Mars Express. Understanding these effects may be crucial for ensuring safe radio
    communications between Mars and Earth and, eventually, between explorers on the surface of the planet.

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