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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    OSIRIS-REx Executes First Deep Space Maneuver
    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/osiris-rex-executes-first-deep-space-maneuver

    NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer,
    OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft executed its first deep space maneuver Dec. 28, 2016, putting it on course
    for an Earth flyby in September 2017. The team will continue to examine telemetry and tracking
    data as it becomes available at the current low data rate and will have more information in January.
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    A Novel Approach to OSETI - Eliot Gillum(SETI Talks 2016)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlFSCpo5xAo
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    Astronomy Cast Ep. 431: The Search for Life on Mars
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuEarGPfoI
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    No need for alien mega-structures around the WTF star | astrobites
    https://astrobites.org/2016/12/28/no-need-for-alien-mega-structures-around-the-wtf-star/
    Mysterious eclipses in the light-curve of KIC 8462852: a possible explanation by L.
    Neslusan & J. Budaj, Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

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    Ancient Rocks Suggest Meteorites Brought Life’s Phosphorus To Earth | Geology IN
    http://www.geologyin.com/2016/08/ancient-rocks-suggest-meteorites.html

    Meteorites that crashed onto Earth billions of years ago may have provided the phosphorous essential to the biological systems of terrestrial life.
    The meteorites are believed to have contained a phosphorus-bearing mineral called schreibersite, and scientists have recently developed a synthetic
    version that reacts chemically with organic molecules, showing its potential as a nutrient for life.

    Phosphorus is one of life's most vital components, but often goes unheralded. It helps form the backbone of the long chains of nucleotides that
    create RNA and DNA; it is part of the phospholipids in cell membranes; and is a building block of the coenzyme used as an energy carrier in cells,
    adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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    Next Big Future: Exoplanet space telescope will launch in December 2017
    http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/11/exoplanet-space-telescope-will-launch.html
    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program,
    designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method. It is planned for launch in December 2017.

    TESS: A New Era of Exoplanet Discovery
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvZ6-bM3pQ
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    Northolt Branch Observatories - Confirmation image of possible supernova AT2016iyw.
    The object right next to it is the host galaxy. The magnitude of 16.2 suggests a distance of the order of 500 M light years.

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    A Clue to Earth's Formation From Deep Beneath Its Surface - The Atlantic
    https://www.theatlantic.com/...6/12/a-clue-to-earths-formation-from-deep-beneath-its-surface/511541/
    Geochemical signals from near the planet’s core are beginning to shed light on its first 50 million years, a period long viewed as inaccessible to science.

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    Technique could yield hyperprecise gravitational measurements | MIT News
    http://news.mit.edu/2016/technique-could-yield-hyperprecise-gravitational-measurements-1227
    New atom interferometer could measure inertial forces with record-setting accuracy.

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    Fireball spotted over West Michigan on December 26, 2016
    Meteor falls through West Michigan Sky
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMtn4EC0s20
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    This German Town Is Embedded with Millions of Tiny Diamonds | Travel | Smithsonian
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/german-town-contains-millions-diamonds-180961467/

    Uppon first glance, Nördlingen has all the hallmarks of a classic German town. At its epicenter sits St.-Georgs-Kirche,
    a medieval church with an imposing tower that dominates the skyline, which itself is punctuated by the red pitched roofs
    of hundreds of timberframe homes and shops. But on closer inspection, it’s these very buildings that set Nördlingen apart
    from other towns, and for one very curious reason: These structures are embedded with millions of microscopic diamonds.

    The diamonds are the result of an asteroid, which struck this area of Bavaria, a federal state in southern Germany, some 15
    million years ago. The resulting impact left behind the Nördlingen Ries (or Ries crater), a massive depression that stretches
    more than nine miles across the German countryside, and is the site upon which Nördlingen sits today. The impact also created
    suevite—an impact breccia or course-grained rock comprised of angular fragments that can include glass, crystal and diamonds,
    and is commonly found at impact sites such as this one.

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    A Tour of NGC 5128 Flare
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np855eaSES8
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    Catalog Page for PIA20513
    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20513

    This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 51 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft
    wide-angle camera on Sept. 9, 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 1.2 million kilometers from Saturn. Image scale is 74 kilometers per pixel.

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    A cosmic megamaser | ESA/Hubble
    http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1652a/

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    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows no signs of damage after an “anomaly”
    during a vibration test earlier in the month, the agency announced Dec. 23.
    No damage to JWST after vibration test anomaly - SpaceNews.com
    http://spacenews.com/no-damage-to-jwst-after-vibration-test-anomaly/

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    M31 - Andromeda Galaxy, Michael Pusatera, Lake St Louis, MO.

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    RIP Vera Rubin. :((
    Her work on galactic rotation revealed a fundamental problem, is strong evidence for Dark Matter.
    Vera Rubin's death is confirmed by a public Facebook note from her granddaughter.
    http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/vera-rubin

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    VIRGO:
    http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n8/full/nphys3852.html
    http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n10/full/nphys3897.html

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    When viewed at the largest scales, the distribution of galaxies in the Universe resembles a complex, tangled web:
    an interconnected network of filaments of galaxies that surround vast, empty voids. Simulations and theory have
    established that filaments – the largest, most densely populated structures in the Universe - have formed in the
    billions of years after the Big Bang, and serve as conduits for transporting gas into galaxies, which they then
    turn into stars. Thanks to advances in telescope instrumentation the current generation of galaxy surveys is
    finally able to observe the night sky in sufficient detail as to accurately map the Cosmic Web for the first time,
    and begin to understand the role it plays in influencing the evolutionary fate of galaxy.

    In this talk, Dr. Alpaslan will review advances in mapping out the filamentary network of the Universe using data
    from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, as well as discuss some recent advances in understanding how
    the galaxies that live in dense filament differ from those that exist alone in isolated voids.

    How galaxies are influenced in the Universe - Mehmet Alpaslan (SETI Talks 2016)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYMENUxYUg
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    What is Life? | The BLOG of the cosmos
    https://blogofthecosmos.com/2016/12/25/what-is-life/

    Is there a definition for life? The great physicist, Erwin Schrodinger, in his influential 1944 book What is Life? posed this question and remarked
    that “the obvious inability of present-day physics and chemistry to account for such events is no reason at all for doubting that they can be accounted
    for by those sciences”. But, indeed, can the “events in time and space which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted
    for by physics and chemistry” as Schrodinger so earnestly posed? How do the fundamental laws of physics and chemistry converge to produce biological
    systems of seemingly ordered complexity?
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