NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10 | NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-spacecraft-to-fly-over-jupiters-great-red-spot-july-10/

Juno - Jupiter Flyby (Jul 11, 03:55 for European CEST zone)

Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm.

The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops. Perijove (the point
at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's center) will be on Monday, July 10, at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT). At the time of perijove,
Juno will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops. Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno will have covered
another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometers) and will be directly above the coiling crimson cloud tops of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The spacecraft
will pass about 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the Giant Red Spot clouds. All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager,
JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.

On July 4 at 7:30 p.m. PDT (10:30 p.m. EDT), Juno will have logged exactly one year in Jupiter orbit. At the time, the spacecraft will have
chalked up about 71 million miles (114.5 million kilometers) in orbit around the giant planet.

NASA Juno Live : Real time simulation - Follow as it passes of Jupiter's Giant Red spot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw-JLx_t-1s


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Perijove-06 Reenacted From Earth taken by Peter Rosén on May 19, 2017 @ Stockholm, Sweden

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Color image of Saturn's rings made from raw uncalibrated JPEGs acquired during Cassini's 12th gap pass on July 5, 2017 by Jason Major.

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On this day - 9 July 2004 - images released from NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini - Saturn's rings in UV. Still breathtaking today!!
New colourful view of Saturn's rings / Cassini-Huygens / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
http://www.esa.int/..._Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/New_colourful_view_of_Saturn_s_rings



Color image of Saturn's rings made from raw uncalibrated JPEGs acquired during Cassini 12th gap pass on July 5, 2017, by J. Major.

ESO’s SPHERE Unveils its First Exoplanet | ESO United Kingdom
http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/announcements/ann17041/?lang

One of the most challenging and exciting areas of astronomy today is the search for exoplanets — other worlds orbiting other stars.
The exoplanet HIP 65426b has recently been discovered using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument)
instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Some 385 light-years from us, HIP 65426b is the first planet that SPHERE has found — and
it turns out to be a particularly interesting one.

Hubble Pushed Beyond Limits to Spot Clumps of New Stars in Distant Galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-sees-clumps-of-new-stars-in-distant-galaxy

By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, astronomers have obtained images 10 times sharper
than what Hubble could achieve on its own. The results show an edge-on disk galaxy studded with brilliant patches of newly formed stars.



Hubble’s Hidden Galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubbles-hidden-galaxy

IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk,
where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust. In order for astronomers to see the intricate
spiral structure of IC 342, they must gaze through a large amount of material contained within our own galaxy — no easy feat! As
a result IC 342 is relatively difficult to spot and image, giving rise to its intriguing nickname: the “Hidden Galaxy.”

YaleNews | A cosmic barbecue: Researchers spot 60 new ‘hot Jupiter’ candidates
http://news.yale.edu/2017/07/06/cosmic-barbecue-researchers-spot-60-new-hot-jupiter-candidates

Yale researchers have identified 60 potential new “hot Jupiters” — highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a barbecue grill
and are found orbiting only 1% of Sun-like stars. Hot Jupiters constitute a class of gas giant planets located so close to their parent
stars that they take less than a week to complete an orbit.

Second-year Ph.D. student Sarah Millholland and astronomy professor Greg Laughlin identified the planet candidates via a novel application
of big data techniques. They used a supervised machine learning algorithm — a sophisticated program that can be trained to recognize patterns
in data and make predictions — to detect the tiny amplitude variations in observed light that result as an orbiting planet reflects rays of
light from its host star.

“Sarah’s work has given us what amounts to a ‘class portrait’ of extrasolar planets at their most alien,” said Laughlin. “It’s amazing how
the latest techniques in machine learning, compounded with high-performance computing, are allowing us to mine classic data sets for
extraordinary discoveries.”

Re-Making Planets after Star-Death
http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/3004-re-making-planets-after-star-death

Astronomers Dr Jane Greaves, of the University of Cardiff, and Dr Wayne Holland, of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh,
may have found an answer to the 25-year-old mystery of how planets form in the aftermath of a supernova explosion. The two researchers
will present their work on Thursday 6 July at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull, and in a paper in Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3621

Radio observatories are accumulating data to detect mergers of supermassive black holes.

Pulsar timing arrays monitor millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way. As a pulsar rotates, it emits radio waves that sweep by Earth with the period of rotation.
The shorter the period, the more and sharper the incident radio-wave ticks, so the better the clock. A gravitational wave passing between a pulsar clock and
an observer distorts spacetime and causes the signals to arrive either later or earlier. “That’s the fingerprint,” says EPTA member Alberto Sesana of
the University of Birmingham.

The distortions due to gravitational waves are faint; if they arise from galaxy mergers, they occur with periods of decades. Data are collected for each pulsar
for about a half hour every few weeks. The hundreds of thousands of pulses from a given observation are summed to extract the signal from the noise.

Extragalactic gravitational waves wash over all the pulsars in the Milky Way. Because the pulsars are independent, and each has its own timing and its own
interstellar medium, the main giveaway for detecting a gravitational wave is a correlated signal between the pulsars. “Pulsars do their own thing, and it’s hard
to dig out a tiny signal from a large number of sources of noise,” says Sesana. “The main way to overcome this is by timing an array of pulsars.”

Each experiment keeps tabs on around 50 pulsars. Often an individual astronomer is responsible for specific clocks. For example, NANOGrav member Maura
McLaughlin of West Virginia University monitors five. Assessing the data “is not completely deterministic,” she says. “It’s a bit of an art form.”

Calm lakes on Titan could mean smooth landing for future space probes
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-calm-lakes-titan-smooth-future.html

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University
of Texas at Austin has found that most waves on Titan's lakes reach only about 1 centimeter high, a finding that indicates a serene
environment that could be good news for future probes sent to the surface of that moon.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/robo_ao2/

The University of Hawaiʻi's 2.2 meter (88-inch) telescope on Maunakea will soon be producing images nearly as sharp
as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, thanks to a new instrument using the latest image sharpening technologies.
Astronomer Christoph Baranec, at the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has been awarded a nearly
$1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build an autonomous adaptive optics system called Robo-AO-2
for the UH telescope.