Is there a 9th planet? | Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ek6SZ0cUJU

https://www.nasa.gov/...ler-visionary-honored-by-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science

William J. Borucki, principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center in
Silicon Valley, California, has been named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Borucki is recognized for distinguished contributions to the field of astrophysics, with his leadership of the Kepler
Mission leading to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets.

No wrong side of Earth for Meteor Camera Network
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-wrong-side-earth-meteor-camera.html

On October 1, the third station of a new 48-camera, video-surveillance network in the United Arab Emirates has come online to help map meteor
showers. The network complements the existing 80-camera Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) network twelve time zones later in California.

Chandra :: Photo Album :: Cyg X-3's Little Friend :: November 21, 2016
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/cygx3/

A snapshot of the stellar life cycle has been captured in a new portrait from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA).
A cloud that is giving birth to stars has been observed to reflect X-rays from Cygnus X-3, a source of X-rays produced by a system where a massive star is slowly
being eaten by its companion black hole or neutron star. This discovery provides a new way to study how stars form.

In 2003, astronomers used Chandra's high-resolution X-ray vision to find a mysterious source of X-ray emission located very close to Cygnus X-3. The separation
of these two sources on the sky is equivalent to the width of a penny at a distance of 830 feet away. In 2013, astronomers reported that the new source is
a cloud of gas and dust.

UCR Today: Large Number of Dwarf Galaxies Discovered in the Early Universe
https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/42353

A UC Riverside-lead team of astronomers has discovered a large number of dwarf galaxies in the early universe by
using the gravitational lensing phenomenon, completing astronomers’ census of star-forming galaxies in that epoch

Space 360: First-ever panoramic view of Earth from aboard Intl Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oEsN9A9bmw

Střízlivé, skvělé.
Skeptic Check: Aliens - The Evidence | Big Picture Science
http://www.bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-aliens-evidence

Geological field trip to Gale crater, Mars - Marion Nachon (SETI Talks 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItkfKRFXo3A

Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust
http://www.livescience.com/56914-dino-killing-asteroid-punched-through-earths-crust.html
After analyzing the crater from the cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, scientists now say the object
that smacked into the planet may have punched nearly all the way through Earth's crust, according to a new study.

The finding could shed light on how impacts can reshape the faces of planets and how such collisions can generate
new habitats for life, the researchers said.

A bright sungrazing comet vaporized in the solar corona on November 17, seen by SOHO/LASCO

As of the end of September 2016, the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft had discovered 3 205 new comets!



Little bit of a particle (dust) shower for ESA/NASA SOHO/LASCO C3 a few hours ago

Parkes telescope receivers
The 64-m Parkes telescope will soon be equipped with a brand-new ultra-wide band receiver covering a frequency range of 0.7 - 4.0 GHz (middle, right).
And, after commissioning the Phased-Array Feed (PAF) - bought by the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronmie (MPIfR) in Bonn for installation on the
100-m Effelsberg telescope (top, right) - we are keen to obtain funding to build a cyrogenically cooled PAF (bottom, right) for wide-field mapping.

50th anniversary of the famous 1966 Leonid storm : American Meteor Society
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-famous-1966-leonid-storm/

The Leonids had been relatively quiet for 100 years between 1866 and 1966. Astronomers predicted an intense display in 1899 and when they failed to impress
that year the public scorned astronomers for many years. It was not until the bright comets of 1910 did the public look again favorably on astronomers.

Bright Radio Bursts Probe Universe's Hidden Matter | Caltech
http://www.caltech.edu/news/bright-radio-bursts-probe-universes-hidden-matter-53009
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech
postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

NSN Webinar: Exploring Exoplanet Biosignatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtRr9hL99M

New Eyes on Space: James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSAH6Yph60

ESA’s new Mars orbiter prepares for first science / ExoMars / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
http://www.esa.int/...vities/Space_Science/ExoMars/ESA_s_new_Mars_orbiter_prepares_for_first_science

The ExoMars orbiter is preparing to make its first scientific observations at Mars during two orbits of the planet starting next week.

The Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, arrived at Mars on 19 October. It entered orbit, as planned,
on a highly elliptical path that takes it from between 230 and 310 km above the surface to around 98 000 km every 4.2 days.

The main science mission will only begin once it reaches a near-circular orbit about 400 km above the planet’s surface after a year of
‘aerobraking’ – using the atmosphere to gradually brake and change its orbit. Full science operations are expected to begin by March 2018.