OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Search Tests Instruments, Science Team
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/osiris-rex-asteroid-search-tests-instruments-science-team

During an almost two-week search, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft’s MapCam imager and scanned part
of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids — objects that scientists believe may exist in one of the stable
regions that co-orbits the sun with Earth. Although no Earth-Trojans were discovered, the spacecraft’s camera operated
flawlessly and demonstrated that it could image objects two magnitudes dimmer than originally expected.

Impressive fireball from Cardiff Camera 2 (North) at Dyffryn Gardens on 24 March 2017 at 00:05:19 UT
Fireball M20170324 000519 from Dyffryn C2 North camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pikz4HfWg

On the hunt for asteroids to avoid ‘near miss’ with Earth : NewsCenter
http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/on-the-hunt-for-asteroids-to-avoid-near-miss-with-earth-228362/

Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf
http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2967-astronomers-identify-purest-most-massive-brown-dwarf

An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the 'purest'
composition and the highest mass yet known. The object, known as SDSS J0104+1535, is a member of the so-called halo – the outermost reaches -
of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars. The scientists report the discovery in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Located 750 light years away in the constellation of Pisces, SDSS J0104+1535 is made of gas that is around 250 times purer than the Sun, so
consists of more than 99.99% hydrogen and helium. Estimated to have formed about 10 billion years ago, measurements also suggest it has a mass
equivalent to 90 times that of Jupiter, making it the most massive brown dwarf found to date.

Astronomers observe early stages of Milky Way-like galaxies in distant universe
http://news.ucsc.edu/2017/03/alma-galaxies.html

New observations reveal massive, dusty galaxies with high rates of star formation and large, extended layers of gas

Milky Way-Like Galaxies in the Early Universe
https://vimeo.com/209248385

The surprising discovery of a new class of pulsating X-ray stars
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-discovery-class-pulsating-x-ray-stars.html

A surprising new class of X-ray pulsating variable stars has been discovered by a team of American and Canadian astronomers
led by Villanova University's Scott Engle and Edward Guinan. Part of the Villanova Secret Lives of Cepheids program, the new
X-ray observations, obtained by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and published Thursday, March 23rd in the Astrophysical Journal,
reveal that the bright prototype of Classical Cepheids, d Cephei, is a periodic pulsed X-ray source.

Blue & bright fireball across the foothills in Colorado on March 23, 2017
Meteor across the foothills in Colorado 03232017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVKI_Jbby0

Hmm, tak zatím nic.. :) Na ukrácení čekání:
Lawrence Krauss Explains Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArHB59o3xs

Za 5 minut!
Cassini to Saturn: The Journey and the Legacy | National Air and Space Museum
https://airandspace.si.edu/events/cassini-saturn-journey-and-legacy

This week, the OSIRIS-REx team completed the 6-month checkout and calibrations of the spacecraft's five science instrument.

VIRGO:
HubbleSite: News - Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out Of Galactic Core
http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-12

Runaway black hole is the most massive ever detected far from its central home

Normally, hefty black holes anchor the centers of galaxies. So researchers were surprised to discover a supermassive black hole
speeding through the galactic suburbs. Black holes cannot be observed directly, but they are the energy source at the heart of
quasars — intense, compact gushers of radiation that can outshine an entire galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made
the discovery by finding a bright quasar located far from the center of the host galaxy.

Researchers estimate that it took the equivalent energy of 100 million supernovas exploding simultaneously to jettison the black
hole. What could pry this giant monster from its central home? The most plausible explanation for this propulsive energy is that
the monster object was given a kick by gravitational waves unleashed by the merger of two black holes as a result of a collision
between two galaxies. First predicted by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space that are created
when two massive objects collide.

VIRGO: Moc milá pocta a vzpomínka! :)

Hear NASA's 'Golden Record' From 1977 Voyager Mission - Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-nasas-golden-record-from-1977-voyager-mission-20151007

Jéé, táta Šesták! :) Dnešní noc bude víc nabouchaná než klasický pátek (díky Karolíně Pórkové)...

Toník Darnellů, čerstvý a svěží! Ještě pravidelné rande v SETI inštitůtu, a čtvrteční večer je komplet.. )
Water on the Exoplanet 51 Pegasi b!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6v60Ru7tRY

Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K09zNxtJ11s

Astronomers find unexpected, dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-astronomers-unexpected-dust-obscured-star-formation.html

Pushing the limits of the largest single-aperture millimeter telescope in the world, and coupling it with gravitational lensing,
University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Alexandra Pope and colleagues report that they have detected a surprising rate of
star formation, four times higher than previously detected, in a dust-obscured galaxy behind a Frontier Fields cluster.

As Pope explains, "This very distant, relatively typical galaxy is known to us, and we knew it was forming stars, but we had no idea
what its real star-formation rate was because there is so much dust surrounding it. Previous observations couldn't reach past that.
Finding out that 75 percent of its star formation was obscured by dust is remarkable and intriguing. These observations clearly show
that we have more to learn."

She adds, "Historians want to know how civilizations were built up, and we astronomers want to know where and how the elements in the
universe were formed and where everything is made of, came from." The study is accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

The new tool that has made such revelations possible is the 50-meter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) which has been observing as
a 32-meter telescope located on an extinct volcano in central Mexico in "early science mode" since 2013. Operated jointly by UMass
Amherst and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), it offers astonishing new power to peer into
dusty galaxies, the astrophysicist says.

Is Dark Energy a Galaxy Killer?
http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/can-dark-energy-kill-galaxies

The surprising importance of a dark-energy selection effect.