Chandra :: Photo Album :: SPT 0346-52 :: December 8, 2016
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/spt0346/

SPT0346-52 is a galaxy found about a billion years after the Big Bang that has one of the highest rates
of star formation ever seen in a galaxy. Chandra's observations ruled out the presence of an actively
growing supermassive black hole, bolstering the case of extreme star formation in this galaxy.

HOWKING: Tak to byla rychlovka. Včera jsem házel na g+ zprávu o jeho hospitalizaci... R.I.P.

John Glenn hospitalized at Wexner Medical Center | NBC4i.com
http://nbc4i.com/2016/12/07/john-glenn-hospitalized-at-wexner-medical-center/

jo uz jsou tam vsichni, cela Mercury 7...

RIP Mig Mad Marine

Zemřel nejstarší muž, který letěl do vesmíru. Johnu Glennovi bylo 95 let - iDNES.cz
http://technet.idnes.cz/..._kuz#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=technet&utm_content=main

Will Earth still exist 5 billion years from now? Old star offers sneak preview of the future – News
http://www.kuleuven.be/...exist-5-billion-years-from-now-old-star-offers-sneak-preview-of-the-future

What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years’ time, the Sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today? Using the most powerful
radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis. Five billion years
ago, this star was very similar to the Sun as it is today.

Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/...2115570-third-ever-natural-quasicrystal-found-in-siberian-meteorite/

There’s more than one way to cook a quasicrystal. For the first time, a new kind of this weird,
rule-breaking solid has been found in nature without an identical compound having first been made in the lab.

Paul Steinhardt at Princeton University has doggedly hunted for quasicrystals since he predicted their existence in the early 1980s.
Before then, we only knew of two types of solids: crystals, in which every atom is arranged neatly in a repeating lattice, and amorphous
solids, which have no such order. Quasicrystals are almost crystals, but they break the rules: their neat patterns never exactly repeat.

Galaxy's rapid growth spurt may have spawned 3000 suns per year | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/...5501-galaxys-rapid-growth-spurt-may-have-spawned-3000-suns-per-year/

Great galaxies can grow up fast. Extreme quantities of magnesium in a quiet specimen far away reveal it was once
one of the wildest star creators in the universe.

The galaxy, named COSMOS 11494, is 10.7 billion light years away, so we see it when the universe was just 3.1 billion
years old. It’s the most distant galaxy in which astronomers have measured the abundances of both magnesium and iron.

Featured Image: A Pulsar Is Obscured by a Solar Explosion
http://aasnova.org/2016/12/05/featured-image-a-pulsar-is-obscured-by-a-solar-explosion/

United Nations General Assembly proclaims 30 June as International Asteroid Day
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/informationfor/media/2016-unis-os-478.html

“The United Nations General Assembly proclaims June 30 as International Asteroid Day. We founded the annual event to raise awareness of the asteroid threat
and opportunity to unite the human species behind a simple goal: Protect our planet from asteroid impacts. It is the only natural disaster we know how to
prevent if we work together towards a global solution. We are all crew of Spaceship Earth.”

– Dr. Brian May, Danica Remy, Grig Richters, Rusty Schweickart

Asteroid Day - Home
http://asteroidday.org/

vlt-fd-video-clip5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9tPjIDzg8&feature=youtu.be

Meteor Fireball December 6 2016 off the Norwegian Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlUM7GNMg8

VIRGO:

Zooming in on one of the KiDS survey regions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFcvLml9TU

VIRGO: No fragments of meteorite in Siberia found so far

TASS: Science & Space - No fragments of meteorite in Siberia found so far — source
http://tass.com/science/917309

Видео падения метеорита в Хакасии. Сибирь. 06.12.2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8H4nwkLunA

Giant radio flare of Cygnus X-3 detected by astronomers
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-giant-radio-flare-cygnus-x-.html

Russian astronomers have recently observed a giant radio flare from a strong X-ray binary source known as Cygnus X-3
(Cyg X-3 for short). The flare occurred after more than five years of quiescence of this source. The discovery was
presented in a paper published Dec. 2 on the arXiv pre-print server.