Super Moon Taken by Ramiz Qureshi on November 14, 2016 @ Dubai, UAE

NASA Renews Search for Antarctic Meteorites*
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/science-from-the-sky-nasa-renews-search-for-antarctic-meteorites
Three federal entities, including NASA, are reaffirming their commitment to search for Antarctic meteorites, to help learn more
about the primitive building blocks of the solar system and answer questions about Earth’s neighbors like the moon and Mars.

A new exhibition in Vienna features CERN “at the beginning of everything”
http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/11/cern-beginning-everything

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20507/saturns-watercolor-swirls
The northern polar region of Saturn is dominated by the famous hexagon shape which itself circumscribes the northern polar vortex –
seen as a dark spot at the planet’s pole in the above image – which is understood to the be eye of a hurricane-like storm.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 20 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on Sept. 5, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light
centered at 728 nanometers.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers from Saturn. Image scale is 86 kilometers per pixel.

Mimas vs Saturn: 400 km vs 120,000 km

Are All Stars Created Equal? | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12584

Astronomers using critical observations from the Gemini Observatory have found the strongest evidence yet
that the formation of more massive stars follow a path similar to their lower-mass brethren - but on steroids!

The new findings, that include data from Gemini, SOFIA, Calar Alto, and the European Southern Observatory,
show that the episodic explosive outbursts within what are called accretion disks, known to occur during
the formation of average mass stars like our Sun, also happen in the formation of very massive stars.

"These outbursts, which are several orders of magnitude larger than their lower mass siblings, can release about
as much energy as our Sun delivers in over 100,000 years," said Dr. Alessio Caratti o Garatti of the Dublin
Institute for Advanced Studies (Ireland). "Surprisingly, fireworks are observed not just at the end of the lives
of massive stars, as supernovae, but also at their birth!"

Pu'umakanaka, Maunakea's shadow, and the full (super) moon. Photo 13 November, OMKM/Waltjen. via Maunakea Astronomy Outreach Committee - MKAOC

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/supermoon-and-expedition-50-soyuz
The moon, or supermoon, is seen rising behind the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, Monday,
Nov. 14, 2016. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and European Space Agency astronaut
Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station at 3:20 p.m. EST, Nov. 17 (2:20 a.m.,
Nov. 18, Kazakh time). All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s
orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth.

ASYD: rozpětí otřesů. V maximech dosahovalo +/- 0,1 mm, což je v toleranci, takže nedošlo k poškození, a vlastně ani přerušení prací.

Wooow! LHC beam orbit affected by New Zealand earthquake ~ 1 hour later. Via John Jowett.

Using LISA to Learn How Pairs of Black Holes Formed
http://aasnova.org/2016/11/11/using-lisa-to-learn-how-pairs-of-black-holes-formed/

New combined image reveals mysterious topography beyond Pluto's terminator. via Roman Tkachenko