Finally, some details about how NASA actually plans to get to Mars | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/...the-first-time-nasa-has-begun-detailing-its-deep-space-exploration-plans/

VIRGO:
Cassini - Final Orbits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA58drPb5l8

Asteroid 2017 FJ101 to flyby Earth at 0.83 LD
https://watchers.news/2017/03/29/asteroid-2017-fj101/

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2017 FJ101 will flyby Earth at a distance of 0.83 LD (~318 720 km) from the surface
of our planet on Thursday, March 30, 2017. This is the 13th asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance since January 9.

Asteroid 2017 FJ101 to flyby Earth on Thursday,. Space News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2jocqZ_OHI

Satellite galaxies at edge of Milky Way coexist with dark matter
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-satellite-galaxies-edge-milky-coexist.html

Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted
standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure.

The vast polar structure—a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way—is at the center of a tug-of-war
between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according
to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

News | NASA to Preview 'Grand Finale' of Cassini Saturn Mission
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-093

NASA will hold a news conference at noon PDT / 3 PM EDT / 21:00 CEST on Tuesday, April 4, at the agency's JPL in Pasadena,
California, to preview the beginning of Cassini's final mission segment, known as the Grand Finale, which begins in late April.
The briefing will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The event will also be streamed live at: http://youtube.com/nasajpl/live

Subaru telescope detects shadow of gas cloud in ancient proto-supercluster
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-subaru-telescope-shadow-gas-cloud.html

A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and others, has used the Suprime-Cam
on the Subaru Telescope to create the most-extensive map of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe. This cloud appears widely spread out across 160 million light-years
in and around a structure called the proto-supercluster. It is the largest structure in the distant universe, and existed some 11.5 billion years ago. Such a huge gas cloud
is extremely valuable for studying large-scale structure formation and the evolution of galaxies from gas in the early universe, and merits further investigation.

"We are surprised because the dense gas structure is extended much more than expected in the proto-supercluster," said Dr. Mawatari. "Wider field observations with
narrow-band filters are needed to grasp full picture of this largest structure in the young Universe. This is exactly the type of strong research that can be done with
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) recently mounted at the Subaru Telescope. We intend to study the gas - galaxy relation in various proto-superclusters using the HSC."

Tonight's Sky: April 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae7rVLTscwc

https://www.nasa.gov/...2017/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-completes-acoustic-and-vibration-tests

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the acoustic and vibration portions of
environmental testing on the telescope. These tests are merely two of the many that spacecraft and instruments endure to ensure they are fit for spaceflight.

Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCTtlZLUDk

Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-astronomers-probe-swirling-particles-halo.html

Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail.

A starburst galaxy is a galaxy experiencing a period of intense star formation and this one, known as NGC 253 or the Sculptor Galaxy, is
approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth.

"The Sculptor Galaxy is currently forming stars at a rate of five solar masses each year, which is a many times faster than our own Milky Way,"
said lead researcher Dr Anna Kapinska, from The University of Western Australia and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
"This galaxy is famous because it's beautiful and very close to us, and because of what's happening inside it—it's quite extraordinary."

The Sculptor Galaxy has an enormous halo of gas, dust and stars, which had not been observed before at frequencies below 300 MHz.
The halo originates from galactic "fountains" caused by star formation in the disk and a super-wind coming from the galaxy's core.

Juno just flew past Jupiter for the fifth time. What have we learned from the mission so far? | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/20170327-juno-early-science.html

Early this morning, NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its fourth science flyby of Jupiter, and fifth overall,
buzzing the giant planet’s cloud tops at a height of just 4 400 kilometers.

These flybys show us amazing pictures. But recall that the Juno mission is not only about Internet fame,
Instagram-glory, and a legacy of really cool space posters—it’s also helping uncover the mysteries of how
the solar system formed by taking a deep look at Jupiter’s interior.