The Big Bang’s Early Visionaries Were Beset by Bad Luck
http://nautil.us/blog/the-tangled-history-of-big-bang-science

Scientists estimate solar nebula’s lifetime | MIT News
http://news.mit.edu/2017/scientists-estimate-solar-nebulas-lifetime-0209
Study finds the swirling gas disk disappeared within the solar system’s first 4 million years.

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening
into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material contracted at the disk’s center to form the sun, and
part of the solar nebula’s remaining gas and dust condensed to form the planets and the rest of our solar system.

Now scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much
of the solar system evolution took shape.

JAYME: No jo, on byl takové tajemství, o kterém všichni věděli.
To víš, po fašistovi přišel bolševik, a bylo třeba tlačit na bránu, bez něj by to zřejmě projeli.
Ale jinak to byl velký showman a charismatická osobnost - dle těch co jej zažili osobně.

Ale Nathan Fillion v náhledu videa mě teda rozbil! :))

VIRGO: :-DDD

Hubble finds big brother of Halley’s Comet ripped apart by white dwarf | ESA/Hubble
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1703/

Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed, for the first time, a massive, comet-like object that has been
ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf. The destroyed object had a chemical composition similar to Halley’s Comet,
but was 100 000 times more massive than its famous counterpart.

The international team of astronomers observed the white dwarf WD 1425+540, about 170 light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes
(the Herdsman). While studying the white dwarf’s atmosphere using both the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory
the team found evidence that an object rather like a massive comet was falling onto the star, getting tidally disrupted while doing so.

Astronomers find faintest early galaxies yet, probe how the early universe lit up
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-astronomers-faintest-early-galaxies-probe.html

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new technique to discover the faintest galaxies yet seen
in the early universe —10 times fainter than any previously seen. These galaxies will help astronomers probe a little-understood,
but important period in cosmic history. Their new technique helps probe the time a billion years after the Big Bang, when the early,
dark universe was flooded with light from the first galaxies.

30 years later, supernova 1987A is still sharing secrets | Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/30-year-anniversary-supernova-1987a

Ian Shelton was alone at a telescope in the remote Atacama Desert of Chile. After three hours getting a picture
of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a wispy galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, he was plunged into darkness. High winds
had taken hold of the rolltop door in the observatory’s roof, slamming it shut.

“This was maybe telling me I should just call it a night,” says Shelton, who was a telescope operator at Las Campanas
Observatory on that evening of February 23, 1987.

He grabbed the photograph — an 8-by-10 inch glass plate — and headed off to the darkroom (yes, these were the days
of developing images by hand). As a quick quality check, he compared the just-developed picture with an image he had
taken the previous night.

Mars 2020 Rover's Landing Site Will Undergo Hot Debate This Week - Seeker
http://www.seeker.com/...s-2020-nasa-rover-workshop-life-hunting-habitable-locations-2245694916.html

Eight potential locations will be studied only three or four will be prioritized for exploration by NASA's next rover mission to the Red Planet.

https://www.nasa.gov/...asa-finds-planets-of-red-dwarf-stars-may-face-oxygen-loss-in-habitable-zones

The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could potentially allow liquid water –
which is essential for life as we know it – to pool on a planet’s surface. New NASA research suggests some of these zones might not actually
be able to support life due to frequent stellar eruptions – which spew huge amounts of stellar material and radiation out into space – from
young red dwarf stars.

Now, an interdisciplinary team of NASA scientists wants to expand how habitable zones are defined, taking into account the impact of stellar
activity, which can threaten an exoplanet’s atmosphere with oxygen loss. This research was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
on Feb. 6, 2017.

Planets of Red Dwarf Stars May Face Oxygen Loss in Habitable Zones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1I5LJndjjU