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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-s-lro-team-wants-you-to-wave-at-the-moon: NASA’s LRO Team Wants You to Wave at the Moon
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16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1725/: Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish
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16 Aug 2017, 17:00 UTC Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their nickname also makes it possible for the gas to reach the central regions of the galaxies, feeding the black hole that lurks in each of them and causing it to shine brilliantly. The results appeared today in the journal Nature.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/2017-astronaut-candidates-available-for-interviews-before-training: 2017 Astronaut Candidates Available for Interviews Before Training
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Direct link 2017 Astronaut Candidates Available for Interviews Before Training

16 Aug 2017, 13:35 UTC NASA’s newest astronaut candidates, a diverse dozen women and men, will participate in media interviews and a final news conference before training on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=59404: Sneak peek of Gaia's sky in colour
ESA Science & Technology

Direct link Sneak peek of Gaia's sky in colour

16 Aug 2017, 08:00 UTC While surveying the positions of over a billion stars, ESA's Gaia mission is also measuring their colour, a key diagnostic to study the physical properties of stars. A new image provides a preview of Gaia's first full-colour all-sky map, which will be unleashed in its highest resolution with the next data release in 2018.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-studies-cubesat-mission-to-solve-venusian-mystery: NASA Studies CubeSat Mission to Solve Venusian Mystery
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Direct link NASA Studies CubeSat Mission to Solve Venusian Mystery

15 Aug 2017, 14:20 UTC Venus looks bland and featureless in visible light, but change the filter to ultraviolet, and Earth’s twin suddenly looks like a different planet. Dark and light areas stripe the sphere, indicating that something is absorbing ultraviolet wavelengths in the planet’s cloud tops.
http://www.lbl.gov/?p=31661: New 3-D Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Cool Their Jets
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Direct link New 3-D Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Cool Their Jets

14 Aug 2017, 23:29 UTC Scientists developed new theories and 3-D simulations to explain what’s at work in the mysterious jets of energy and matter beaming from the center of galaxies at nearly the speed of light. As much as half of the jets’ energy can escape in the form of X-rays and stronger forms of radiation. Researchers showed how two different mechanisms serve to reduce about half of the energy of these jets.
79330 at http://www.caltech.edu: Cosmic Magnifying Lens Reveals Inner Jets of Black Holes
California Institute of Technology

Direct link Cosmic Magnifying Lens Reveals Inner Jets of Black Holes

14 Aug 2017, 22:38 UTC Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant galaxy containing a jet-spewing supermassive black hole. The discovery provides the best view yet of blobs of hot gas that shoot out from supermassive black holes.
35ef27b2212695e68996564f70d75c5f: Space eclipse
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14 Aug 2017, 07:24 UTC
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-215&rn=news.xml&rst=6920: Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Direct link Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan

11 Aug 2017, 19:08 UTC
ssc2017-09: TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Direct link TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System

11 Aug 2017, 16:09 UTC If we want to know more about whether life could survive on a planet outside our solar system, it’s important to know the age of its star. Young stars have frequent releases of high-energy radiation called flares that can zap their planets' surfaces. If the planets are newly formed, their orbits may also be unstable. On the other hand, planets orbiting older stars have survived the spate of youthful flares, but have also been exposed to the ravages of stellar radiation for a longer period of time.

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