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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    Animation of `Oumuamua passing through the Solar System (annotated)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PpbO7vIjU
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    https://www.nasa.gov/...ard/2017/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-completes-final-cryogenic-testing

    The vault-like, 40-foot diameter, 40-ton door of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was unsealed on November 18,
    signaling the end of cryogenic testing for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

    “After 15 years of planning, chamber refurbishment, hundreds of hours of risk-reduction testing, the dedication of more than 100
    individuals through more than 90 days of testing, and surviving Hurricane Harvey, the OTIS cryogenic test has been an outstanding
    success,” said Bill Ochs, project manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
    Maryland. “The completion of the test is one of the most significant steps in the march to launching Webb.”

    These tests included an important alignment check of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments, to make sure all of the gold-plated,
    hexagonal segments acted like a single, monolithic mirror.

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    Breakthrough Prize Foundation studying privately-funded Enceladus mission - SpaceNews.com
    http://spacenews.com/breakthrough-prize-foundation-studying-privately-funded-enceladus-mission/

    The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, the organization funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, is examining the feasibility of a private mission to a moon of Saturn.

    The effort, still in its early study phases, could eventually lead to a mission to the moon Enceladus. That icy moon likely has an ocean of liquid water underneath
    its surface, based in part on plumes emanating from its surface as seen by NASA’s Cassini mission. That has raised its prospects as a potentially habitable world.

    Milner first revealed his foundation was considering such a mission during an on-stage interview at a conference in Seattle Nov. 9 organized by The Economist magazine.
    “We formed a little workshop around this idea,” he said. “Can we design a low-cost privately-funded mission to Enceladus, which can be launched relatively soon and
    that can look more thoroughly at those plumes to try to see what’s going on there?”

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    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.

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    ČT24 za 20 minut! HPC - Ed Kolb

    Hyde Park Civilizace — Česká televize
    http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/
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    We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world | New Scientist
    https://www.newscientist.com/...61-we-just-sent-a-message-to-try-to-talk-to-aliens-on-another-world/

    Are you there, aliens? It’s us, Earth. Astronomers have sent a radio message to a neighbouring star system – one of the closest
    known to contain a potentially habitable planet – and it’s nearby enough that we could receive a reply in less than 25 years.

    “I think that’s an unlikely outcome, but it would be a welcome outcome,” said Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extraterrestrial
    Intelligence (METI) International. METI is an offshoot of the more familiar SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

    The target star is GJ 273, also known as Luyten’s star, a red dwarf in the northern constellation of Canis Minor, just 12 light years
    away. In March of this year it was discovered to have two planets. One of them, known as GJ 273b, orbits within the star’s “habitable
    zone” and could potentially harbor liquid water, and perhaps life.

    Astronomers are trying to send a message to aliens
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bbjbuCdTA4
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    https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2017/20171117-nro.html

    Using more than half a century of observations, Japanese astronomers have discovered that the microwaves coming from the Sun at
    the minimums of the past five solar cycles have been the same each time, despite large differences in the maximums of the cycles.

    In Japan, continuous four-frequency solar microwave observations (1, 2, 3.75 and 9.4 GHz) began in 1957 at the Toyokawa Branch of
    the Research Institute of Atmospherics, Nagoya University. In 1994 the telescopes were relocated to NAOJ Nobeyama Campus, where
    they have continued observations up to the present.





    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-detects-solar-flare-pulses-at-sun-and-earth

    By using multiple observatories, two recent studies show how solar flares exhibit pulses or oscillations
    in the amount of energy being sent out. Such research provides new insights on the origins of these massive
    solar flares as well as the space weather they produce, which is key information as humans and robotic
    missions venture out into the solar system, farther and farther from home.

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    Hurá!!
    http://www.nature.com/news/arecibo-telescope-wins-reprieve-from-us-government-1.22994

    Nearly two months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the people who operate one of the world’s pre-eminent radio telescopes —
    at the Arecibo Observatory, on the northwestern part of the island — are still without reliable water, electricity, and phone service at
    their homes. But their jobs appear to be safe.

    The US National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds about two-thirds of the observatory’s annual US$12-million budget, has decided to
    continue operating it in collaboration with as-yet-to-be-decided partners. Over the next five years the agency will reduce its annual
    contribution from $8.2 million to $2 million, with the rest coming from the unspecified partner institutions.

    “I'm so happy they made the right decision,” says Edgard Rivera-Valentín, a planetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory
    and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. “I’m so happy the observatory stays alive.”

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    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.”

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    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.

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    News | Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth
    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7000

    As a young scientist, Tony del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City met Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.

    Del Genio is now co-lead of a NASA interdisciplinary initiative to search for life on other worlds. This new position as the lead of this project
    may seem odd to those who know him professionally. Why? He has dedicated decades to studying Earth, not searching for life elsewhere.

    We know of only one living planet: our own. But we know it very well. As we move to the next stage in the search for alien life, the effort will
    require the expertise of planetary scientists, heliophysicists and astrophysicists. However, the knowledge and tools NASA has developed to study
    life on Earth will also be one of the greatest assets to the quest.

    How to Find a Living Planet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=mbjQB6Yqc-E
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    ESA Science & Technology: How do you find a star cluster? Easy, simply count the stars
    http://sci.esa.int/gaia/59741-how-do-you-find-a-star-cluster-easy-simply-count-the-stars/

    It's the perfect meeting of old and new. Astronomers have combined the latest data from ESA's Gaia mission
    with a simple analysis technique from the 18th century to discover a massive star cluster that had previously
    escaped detection. Now, subsequent investigations are helping reveal the star-forming history of our Galaxy.

    Gaia scanning the sky
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=IUk-fFEci0w


    Gaia: How to find a star cluster
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=syOqZKSN3EA
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    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
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    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:

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    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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    When water met iron deep inside the Earth, it might have created conditions for life - Astrobiology Magazine
    https://www.astrobio.net/...-in-news/water-met-iron-deep-inside-earth-might-created-conditions-life/

    Reservoirs of oxygen-rich iron between the Earth’s core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth’s history,
    including the breakup of supercontinents, drastic changes in Earth’s atmospheric makeup, and the creation of life,
    according to recent work from an international research team published in National Science Review.

    The team—which includes scientists from Carnegie, Stanford University, the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology
    Advanced Research in China, and the University of Chicago—probed the chemistry of iron and water under the extreme
    temperatures and pressures of the Earth’s core-mantle boundary.

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    Supercomputer Simulates Dynamic Magnetic Fields of Jupiter, Earth, Sun - Egghead
    http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/...11/09/supercomputer-simulates-dynamic-magnetic-fields-jupiter-earth-sun/

    As the Juno space probe approached Jupiter in June last year, researchers with the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics’
    Dynamo Working Group were starting to run simulations of the giant planet’s magnetic field on one of the world’s fastest computers.
    While the timing was coincidental, the supercomputer modeling should help scientists interpret the data from Juno, and vice versa.

    Jupiter’s magnetic fields
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqZnjg5JdY


    Earth’s magnetic fields
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUbbRvTf218
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    Astronomers discover new type of cosmic explosion | University of Southampton
    https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2017/11/galactic-explosion.page

    An international team of astronomers, including a University of Southampton expert, has discovered a new type of explosion in a distant galaxy.
    The explosion, called PS1-10adi, seems to prefer active galaxies that house supermassive black holes consuming the gas and material around them.

    Using telescopes on La Palma and Hawaii, the team detected an explosion that was so energetic it must have originated from one of two sources:
    an extremely massive star – up to several hundred times more massive than our Sun – exploding as a supernova, or from a lower mass star that
    has been shredded by the ultra-strong gravitational forces close to the supermassive black hole.
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    With launch of new night sky survey, UW researchers ready for era of ‘big data’ astronomy | UW News
    http://www.washington.edu/...ew-night-sky-survey-uw-researchers-ready-for-era-of-big-data-astronomy/

    The first astronomers had a limited toolkit: their eyes. They could only observe those stars, planets and celestial events bright enough to pick up unassisted.
    But today’s astronomers use increasingly sensitive and sophisticated instruments to view and track a bevy of cosmic wonders, including objects and events that
    were too dim or distant for their sky-gazing forebears.

    On Nov. 14, scientists with the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington and eight additional partner institutions, announced that
    the Zwicky Transient Facility, the latest sensitive tool for astrophysical observations in the Northern Hemisphere, has seen “first light” and took its first
    detailed image of the night sky.

    When fully operational in 2018, the ZTF will scan almost the entire northern sky every night. Based at the Palomar Observatory in southern California and
    operated by Caltech, the ZTF’s goal is to use these nightly images to identify “transient” objects that vary between observations — identifying events
    ranging from supernovae millions of light years away to near-Earth asteroids.

    Zwicky Transient Facility sees 'first light'
    https://phys.org/news/2017-11-zwicky-transient-facility.html

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    https://www.space.com/38782-possibly-earth-like-alien-planet-ross-128b.html

    A newfound exoplanet may be one of the best bets to host alien life ever discovered — and it's right in Earth's backyard, cosmically speaking.

    Astronomers have spotted a roughly Earth-mass world circling the small, dim star Ross 128, which lies just 11 light-years from the sun.
    The planet, known as Ross 128b, may have surface temperatures amenable to life as we know it, the researchers announced in a new study that
    will appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

    Ross 128b is 2.6 times more distant from Earth than Proxima b, the potentially habitable planet found in the nearest solar system to the sun.
    But Proxima b's parent star, Proxima Centauri, blasts out a lot of powerful flares, potentially bathing that planet in enough radiation to
    stunt the emergence and evolution of life, scientists have said.

    Radiation is likely much less of an issue for Ross 128b, because its parent star is not an active flarer, said discovery team leader Xavier
    Bonfils, of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble and the University of Grenoble Alpes in France.

    "This is the closest Earth-mass planet potentially in the habitable zone that orbits a quiet star," Bonfils told Space.com via email, referring
    to the range of orbital distances where liquid water could exist on a world's surface.

    http://www.eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso1736b/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVi5D9xtmMM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmmy55xNVg
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