VIRGO: ok... nejdriv sem to nechtel postovat, ale ted uz mi to neda - bud je to hodne sofistikovanej prank, nebo je to fakt uzasna nahoda :)

Woow!

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/solar-system-s-first-interstellar-visitor-dazzles-scientists

new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue.
The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-
elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or
comet observed in our solar system to date. While its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike
asteroids seen in our solar system, it may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.

Next Generation Astronomical Survey to Map the Entire Sky | SDSS | Press Releases
http://www.sdss.org/press-releases/sdss5/

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science,
will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will
kickstart a groundbreaking all-sky spectroscopic survey for a next wave of discovery, anticipated to start in 2020.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been one of the most-successful and influential surveys in the history of astronomy, creating
the most-detailed three-dimensional maps of the universe ever made, with deep multi-color images of one third of the sky, and
spectra for more than three million astronomical objects.

“For more than 20 years, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has defined excellence in astronomy,” says Paul L. Joskow, President of
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “SDSS-V continues that august tradition by combining cutting-edge research, international
collaboration, technological innovation, and cost-effective grassroots governance. The Sloan Foundation is proud to be a core
supporter of SDSS-V.”

GW170608
http://www.ligo.org/detections/GW170608.php

On November 15, 2017, LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the observation of another binary black hole coalescence.
The gravitational waves were observed by the twin LIGO detectors on June 8, 2017. This is the lightest black hole binary
observed so far, with component masses 12 and 7 times the mass of the sun.

You Can Visit Real Alien Planets in VR Thanks to This Awesome New Simulation
https://www.space.com/38749-visit-six-real-exoplanets-with-virtual-reality.html

Ever wonder what it would be like to stand on an alien planet while you're lacerated by burning rain?
Most exoplanets might not be great to visit in real life, but a new 360-degree video brings the experience
to the safety of virtual reality, offering viewers a tour of six exoplanets across the universe.

The tour comes from animation-and-virtual-effects house Engine House VFX, which teamed up with the Bristol
Science Centre and exoplanet scientists at the University of Exeter, in England.

Take a Virtual Reality tour of six REAL exoplanets (4K, 360° VR experience) | We The Curious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLExhpXX0E

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog

Here is the Periodic Table of Exoplanets with over 3700 confirmed worlds:

VIRGO:

http://seti.berkeley.edu:8000/observations-of-ross-128/

Exciting news: the HARPS exoplanet hunter team have discovered a new, Earth-like exoplanet orbiting around the star Ross 128, one of our closest neighbors.
This newly discovered 'exo-Earth', designated Ross 128b, is particularly remarkable as it is thought to have surface temperatures similar to here on Earth.

Curiously, this is the second time this year Ross 128 has been in the news. In May 2017, an intriguing signal in the direction of Ross 128 was detected at
Arecibo. In July, we conducted follow-up observations with Green Bank Telescope and concluded that disappointingly, the signal was most likely due to radio
interference from a passing satellite. Our analysis has now been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology; data from our
observations is available for download at http://seti.berkeley.edu/ross128/.

Ross 128 was also observed over the 1.1-1.9 GHz band as part of Breakthrough Listen's nearby star survey. Again, we did not detect any signals of SETI interest.
These data are available online, and our analysis is detailed in the Astrophysical Journal (E. Enriquez et. al., 2017).

So sadly, we've already looked closely at Ross 128 and have come up empty. Nonetheless, as Ross 128b is such an exciting target, we are considering additional,
deeper observations at radio and optical wavelengths. Nearby exoplanets are particularly exciting from a SETI perspective as they permit us to search for and
potentially detect much weaker signals than from more distant targets.

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Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua (formerly A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38728

Now that we have determined that the object now known as 1I/’Oumuamua is indeed interstellar in origin,
is there any way we could launch a mission to study it? The study below, written by key players in the
Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), examines the possibilities. Andreas Hein is Executive as well
as Technical Director of i4is, while Nikolas Perakis, a graduate student at the Technical University of
Munich, serves as Deputy Technical director. Kelvin Long is president and co-founder of i4is; Adam Crowl,
a familiar figure to Centauri Dreams readers, is active in its technical programs. Physicist and radio
astronomer Marshall Eubanks is the founder of Asteroid Initiatives; systems engineer Robert Kennedy is
president of i4is-US and general chair of the Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop. Propulsion scientist Richard
Osborne serves as i4is Director of Technology & Strategic Foresight. Their plan for 1I/’Oumuamua follows.

[1711.03155] Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/'Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the Interstellar Asteroid
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21970/jupiter-s-stunning-southern-hemisphere

See Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures
one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet.

The image was taken on Oct. 24, 2017 at 11:11 a.m. PDT (2:11 p.m. EDT), as Juno performed its ninth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time
the image was taken, the spacecraft was 20,577 miles (33,115 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of minus
52.96 degrees. The spatial scale in this image is 13.86 miles/pixel (22.3 kilometers/pixel).

Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.