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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    5 let od objevení Higgsova bosonu (od 20:35)
    Studio ČT24 — iVysílání — Česká televize
    http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10101491767-studio-ct24/217411058060704
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    Shocking case of indigestion in supermassive black hole
    http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/3010-shocking-case-of-indigestion-in-supermassive-black-hole

    A multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole's case of 'indigestion'. Results will be presented
    by Dr Hayden Rampadarath at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull. Once every couple of hundred million years, the small galaxy NGC 5195 falls
    into the outer arms of its larger companion, NGC 5194, also known as the Whirlpool galaxy. Both galaxies are locked in a gravitational dance that will result –
    billions of years in the future – in the formation of a single galaxy.

    As NGC 5195 plunges into the Whirlpool, matter streams onto the supermassive black hole at NGC 5195's centre and forms an accretion disc. The disc grows to a point
    where the supermassive black hole can no longer accrete or 'digest' efficiently and matter is blasted out into the surrounding interstellar medium. Last year, NASA's
    Chandra X-Ray observatory spotted arcs of X-ray emission that appeared to result from this 'force-feeding'.

    Now, new high-resolution images of the core of NGC 5195, taken with the e-MERLIN radio array, and archive images of the surrounding area from the Very Large Array
    (VLA), Chandra and the Hubble Space Telescope, reveal in detail how these blasts occur and spread. The study was led by astronomers at the University of Manchester's
    Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

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    'Little Cub' gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise
    https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/07/little-cub-galaxy.html

    A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about the early universe has been spotted by astronomers as it begins to be consumed by a gigantic neighboring galaxy.

    The Little Cub galaxy--so called because it sits in the Ursa Major or Great Bear constellation--is being stripped of the gas needed to continue forming stars by
    its larger companion. The find means scientists now have a rare opportunity to observe a dwarf galaxy as its gas is removed by the effects of a nearby giant galaxy
    to learn more about how this process happens. As the Little Cub has remained almost pristine since its formation, scientists also hope its elements will reveal more
    about the chemical signature of the universe just minutes after the Big Bang. The research, carried out by UC Santa Cruz and Durham University, UK, is being presented
    on Tuesday, July 4, at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting.

    The Little Cub and its larger neighbor, a spiral galaxy called NGC 3359, are about 200 to 300 thousand light years apart, and approximately 50 million light years
    from Earth. Gas from the Little Cub is being stripped away by its interaction with NGC 3359, which has up to 10,000 times as many stars as the Little Cub and is
    similar to our Milky Way. By observing this cosmic feast, scientists hope to understand more about how and when gas is lost from smaller galaxies.

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    Celestial Fireworks: Into Star Cluster Westerlund 2
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtY44sPNHcU
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    Striking Gemini Images Point Juno Spacecraft Toward Discovery | Gemini Observatory
    http://gemini.edu/node/12679

    Very detailed Gemini Observatory images peel back Jupiter’s atmospheric layers to support
    the NASA/JPL Juno spacecraft in its quest to understand the giant planet’s atmosphere.

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    Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Sprains ‘Ankle’ but Perseveres on Walkabout
    http://www.planetary.org/...-missions/mer-updates/2017/06-mer-update-opportunity-sprains-ankle.html

    Sols 4747-4775


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    NASA’S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase
    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-first-asteroid-deflection-mission-enters-next-design-phase

    The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense -- the Double Asteroid Redirection
    Test (DART) -- is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase, following NASA’s approval on June 23.

    Dart Moon Collision
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zooPRmgUPI
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    Hidden red dwarf discovered in dust of giant star | University of Hertfordshire
    http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news/2017/july/hidden-red-dwarf-discovered-in-dust-of-giant-star

    Observations of the brightest star in the infrared sky by a team of astronomers, including researchers
    from the University of Hertfordshire, have revealed that the dust surrounding it hides a small red dwarf star.

    CW Leonis, a red giant star 500 times the size of the Sun is located in the Leo constellation 300 light years away.
    This is an evolving star that is ejecting significant amounts of dust forming an enveloping cloud many times the size
    of our solar system. It has been the subject of hundreds of studies over the years, but only now has the existence
    of a smaller red dwarf star been found within the dust cloud.

    From 1994 to 2000, using a one meter telescope at the Observatory of Torino, Professor Richard Smart at the University
    of Hertfordshire observed a minute wobble in the motion of CW Leonis that defied explanation. This wobble was very small -
    equivalent to the side of a 10p coin on the Moon as seen from the Earth - but it was detectable.

    A recent study of the dust around CW Leonis revealed a swirl pattern that was hypothesised to be due to the presence of
    an unseen companion star. Introducing the companion resolved the 17-year-old mystery of the wobble. The research has
    been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
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    MACH in VR: 7 Big Questions About The Cosmos
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujewwFiS-s


    Why Are Distant Galaxies Aligned?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbeJUcABezw
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    Střechu kůlny prorazil meteorit starý 4,5 miliardy let – Novinky.cz
    https://www.novinky.cz/...a-skoly/442548-strechu-kulny-prorazil-meteorit-stary-4-5-miliardy-let.html
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    Pulsar Candidate in Andromeda

    NASA's Nuclear Spectroscope Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has identified a candidate pulsar in Andromeda - the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
    This likely pulsar is brighter at high energies than the Andromeda galaxy's entire black hole population. The inset image shows the pulsar candidate
    in blue, as seen in X-ray light by NuSTAR. The background image of Andromeda was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in ultraviolet light.

    Andromeda is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way but larger in size. It lies 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda constellation.

    Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/JHU

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    ALMA Reveals Turbulent Birth of Twin Baby Stars
    http://www.almaobservatory.org/...ress-releases/1190-alma-reveals-turbulent-birth-of-twin-baby-stars

    Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers obtained a critical clue to an underlying problem:
    how are widely separated twin stars formed? The team found very low mass newborn twin stars with misaligned rotation axes.
    This misalignment indicates that they were formed in a pair of fragmented gas clouds produced through turbulence, not via
    evolution of tightly-coupled twin. This finding strongly supports the turbulent fragmentation theory of binary star formation
    down to the substellar regime.

    An international team of astronomers led by Jeong-Eun Lee in Kyung Hee University, Korea, observed the baby twin star system
    IRAS 04191+1523 with ALMA. Thanks to the high resolution of ALMA, the team successfully imaged the rotation of the gas disks
    around the very low mass twin stars and found that the rotation axes of the two stars are misaligned.

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    New faint dwarf galaxy discovered
    https://phys.org/news/2017-07-faint-dwarf-galaxy.html

    Astronomers have detected a new faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy using Japan's Subaru Telescope located in Hawaii. The newly found dwarf, designated d1005+68,
    belongs to a nearby galaxy group known as the M81 Group. The new findings were presented June 22 in a paper published on the arXiv pre-print repository.

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    Large sample of giant radio galaxies discovered | OUPblog
    https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/giant-radio-galaxies-discovered/

    Recently a team of astronomers from India have reported discovery of a large number of extremely rare kind of galaxies called “giant radio galaxies” (GRGs),
    using a nearly 20 year old radio survey. GRGs are the largest galaxies known in the Universe, which are visible only to radio telescopes. These extremely active
    form of galaxies harbor a super massive black hole ‘central-engine’ at the nucleus, which ejects a pair of high energy particle jets nearly at the speed of light,
    which terminate into two giant radio lobes. These behemoths span nearly three million light years across, or even more sometimes. This size corresponds to stacking
    nearly 33 Milky Way like galaxies in a line!

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    Under pressure - extreme atmosphere stripping may limit exoplanets’ habitability
    http://www.ras.org.uk/...der-pressure-extreme-atmosphere-stripping-may-limit-exoplanets-habitability

    New models of massive stellar eruptions hint at an extra layer of complexity when considering whether an exoplanet may be habitable or not.
    Models developed for our own Sun have now been applied to cool stars favoured by exoplanet hunters, in research presented by Dr Christina Kay,
    of the NASA Goddard Flight Center, on Monday 3rd July at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull.

    Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are huge explosions of plasma and magnetic field that routinely erupt from the Sun and other stars. They are
    a fundamental factor in so called “space weather”, and are already known to potentially disrupt satellites and other electronic equipment on Earth.
    However, scientists have shown that the effects of space weather may also have a significant impact on the potential habitability of planets around
    cool, low mass stars - a popular target in the search for Earth-like exoplanets.
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    ALICE detector upgrades enter production phase | ALICE Matters
    http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/?q=content%2Fnode%2F1029

    While the extended end-of-year shutdown has concluded and the LHC has been switched on again, the activities for the upgrade of the ALICE detector
    have entered a new phase. The prototypes of the various new components have been tested and validated, so that now production can start.

    This major upgrade will increase the performance of the detector in order to fully exploit the higher interaction rate of about 50 kHz that is expected
    in Run 3 of LHC, after the two-year long shut down (LS2) that will start at the end of 2018.

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