Windy, Windyty. Wind map & weather forecast
https://www.windy.com/?clouds,2017-06-12-12,49.067,16.699,6,m:e0pagHj

Hubble "Traps" a Vermin Galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its jaw-dropping snapshots of the cosmos. At first glance this Picture of the Week appears to be quite the opposite, showing just a blur of jagged spikes, speckled noise, and weird, clashing colors — but once you know what you are looking at, images like this one are no less breathtaking.

This shows a distant galaxy — visible as the smudge to the lower right — as it begins to align with and pass behind a star sitting nearer to us within the Milky Way. This is an event known as a transit. The star is called HD 107146, and it sits at the center of the frame. Its light has been blocked in this image to make its immediate surroundings and the faint galaxy visible — the position of the star is marked with a green circle.

The concentric orange circle surrounding HD 107146 is a circumstellar disk — a disk of debris orbiting the star. In the case of HD 107146 we see the disk face-on. As this star very much resembles our sun, it is an interesting scientific target to study: its circumstellar disk could be analogous to the asteroids in our Solar System and the Kuiper belt.

more at: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-traps-a-vermin-galaxy

ja som si vcera pre zmenu strihol mesiac s jupiterom (a sekundujuca spica) :)



a na siroko :)

fotil jsem ve čtvrtek asi v 1830 při dokonale jasné obloze, je to strašně zašuměné, za hranicemi technických možností foťáku a objektivu (jen 300mm ohnisko a jen 16mpix, takže je to miniaturní výřez z fotky), ale stejně mě mile překvapilo, co se dá takhle z ruky vyfotit obyčejným foťákem. Měsíc jak teď byl ve dne vysoko na obloze vypadal trochu strašidelně, jak z Melancholie :)

jeden vesmirny :)

Go No.2, good weather forecast 60%.

SpaceX is targeting launch of its eleventh Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-11) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday, June 3 at 5:07 p.m. EDT or 21:07 UTC (23:07 CEST)

The CRS-11 mission will be the first reflight of a Dragon spacecraft and will mark the 100th launch from historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following stage separation, the first stage of Falcon 9 will attempt to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

CRS-11 Hosted Webcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URh-oPqjlM8

Eclipsing Black Holes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0op0T2VTDy0

Pangea globe

Melown Cloud
https://www.melown.com/...i?pos=obj,-65.944132,38.404960,fix,7.34,18.38,-90.00,0.00,7209896.97,55.00

PANAAK:

GW170104 Press Release | LIGO Lab | Caltech
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170104

PANAAK:

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has done it again, detecting gravitational waves rippling away from a cosmic collision between a pair of black holes. Only this time, the pair met around 3 billion light-years away.

This is the third time the observatory has successfully measured such an event, but just when you think you've seen it all before, this collision comes with a literal twist – at least one of the black holes seems to be spinning in an unusual direction.

It's happening: LIGO just detected gravitational waves for the THIRD time - ScienceAlert
http://www.sciencealert.com/...kwards-spinning-black-holes-in-yet-another-set-of-gravitational-waves

third one!

Hanford LIGO announcement set for Thursday

LIGO at Hanford and its twin observatory in Louisiana are set to make an announcement on Thursday.

While officials are not saying what’s up, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories started their latest scientific run about six months ago.

LIGO Hanford announcement planned June 1 | Tri-City Herald
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article153192054.html

heads up!

Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system
https://soundcloud.com/new-scientist/send-an-ear-listening-for

Imanuel Kant:
Dvě věci naplňují mysl vždy novým a rostoucím úžasem a úctou, čím častěji a více o nich člověk rozjímá: hvězdné nebe nade mnou a mravní zákon ve mně.

Kritika praktického rozumu, Závěr, AA V.161.

Halos in Martian Sandstone
Pale zones called "halos" border bedrock fractures visible in this 2015 image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover which has been darkened (a previously released image can be seen here). Measurements overlaid on the image offer a sense of scale for the size of these fractures. The rover team determined that the halos are rich in silica, a clue to the duration of wet environmental conditions long ago.

(The location is on the lower slope of Mars' Mount Sharp, along the rover's path between "Marias Pass" and "Bridger Basin." In this region, the rover has found fracture zones to be associated with rock compositions enriched in silica, relative to surrounding bedrock.)

Webb Moves to NASA's Johnson Space Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFiqiN-mxw4

The enormous Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center opens wide for the James Webb Space Telescope! Read more about our upcoming testing: https://www.nasa.gov/...re/goddard/2017/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-says-open-wide-to-chamber-a

Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

Report z astrobiologického meetingu ve Švédsku. Že mi to ale trvalo! Doufám, že s časem, který zabralo sepsání, si to alespoň tím víc lidí přečte :)!

2017: Swedish Odyssea AKA Astrobiology in Sweden – Julie Novakova
https://www.julienovakova.com/2017-swedish-odyssea-aka-astrobiology-in-sweden/

SN0WCRASH: taky myslím, že Canopus z naší zemské šířky už vidět nelze. hranice obzoru postupuje téměř kolmo ve směru zleva doprava. jestli se dobře dívám, při našem zimním slunovratu protíná levou část Gum Nebula.