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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I’ll go to Mars after Elon Musk sends his mom - Redorbit
http://www.redorbit.com/...3417836/neil-degrasse-tyson-ill-go-to-mars-after-elon-musk-sends-his-mom/

As the Washington Post explained, Tyson was answering questions from fans in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session on Sunday when someone
inquired what he thought about SpaceX’s recent success, and whether or not he would ever be willing to take a one-way trip to Mars.

Tyson responded with his trademark humor. “I really like Earth. So any space trip I take, I'm double-checking that there's sufficient funds
for me to return,” he wrote. “Also, I'm not taking that trip until Elon Musk (sends) his mother and brings her back alive. Then I'm good for it.”

I am Neil degrasse Tyson, your personal Astrophysicist. : IAmA
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/631eem/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_your_personal/

Would Neil deGrasse Tyson ever take SpaceX to Mars? Only if Elon Musk’s mom does it first. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...-mars-only-if-elon-musks-mom-does-it-first/?utm_term=.6c9f912ce72e

New research opportunities with GROWTH for the Astrophysics Research Institute | News | Liverpool John Moores University
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2017/4/5/new-research-opportunities-growth

The Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) has been named as an official partner in the GROWTH
(Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) scientific collaboration, setting up
exciting research opportunities in a range of areas to tell us more about the Universe, from
time domain astrophysics to fast-changing events in the cosmos like supernovae, neutron stars,
black hole mergers, and near-earth asteroids.

El Telescopio Liverpool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvphlHIacH4

Dr. Sara Imari Walker's WICI Talk: Bio from Bit: Quantifying the Origins of Life
https://vimeo.com/211691356

OCTOCAM Looks Toward a New Era of Discovery | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12656?utm_content=bufferc5510

Gemini Observatory announces the development of a major new facility-class broadband optical and near-infrared imager and spectrograph named OCTOCAM.

"OCTOCAM provides Gemini with a unique capability as we look ahead to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope era," says Stephen Goodsell who manages
the instrument program for Gemini. "The instrument will be able to rapidly acquire transient objects and simultaneously obtain eight images or spectral
bands from each target," according to Goodsell. "This is important because it provides a much greater level of information and detail, which will
undoubtedly lead to transformational scientific discoveries."

New Model: Nearby Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e May Be Just Right for Life
http://www.space.com/36349-trappist-1e-just-right-for-life.html

Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e
may be the only habitable planet in a newly discovered batch of seven, according to a new climate model.

When researchers announced the discovery of seven planets that closely orbit the cool red star TRAPPIST-1 in February,
there was a rush to learn more about the little rocky worlds and find out if any might be habitable. One of the first
scientists to model the worlds' potential climates in depth was Eric Wolf, a researcher at University of Colorado, Boulder.
His model, along with others still to come, will paint a clearer picture of what the system's planets could actually be like.

Wolf modeled three planets around TRAPPIST-1 and tested different potential atmospheres to see whether any let liquid water
exist on a planet's surface. He found that, in his simulation, only one of the planets listed as potentially habitable would
be able to keep liquid water.

Sorted.. :)
Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Hug a Robot: Vote for Cassini
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/vote-for-cassini/

VIRGO: Teď skončil ALMA přenos o EHT. Tohle nabírat jen na mikrák na kameře je na pohlavek, ale jinak paráda.

https://www.facebook.com/...58/?type=2&theater¬if_t=live_video_explicit¬if_id=1491499847854886

News | Ceres' Temporary Atmosphere Linked to Solar Activity
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-098

Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it's not always present.
Now, researchers suggest that this temporary atmosphere appears to be related to the behavior of the sun, rather than Ceres' proximity to the sun. The study
was conducted by scientists from NASA's Dawn mission and others who previously identified water vapor at Ceres using other observatories.

"We think the occurrence of Ceres' transient atmosphere is the product of solar activity," said Michaela Villarreal, lead author of the new study
in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Astronomers just turned on a planet-size telescope to take a picture of a black hole - Vox
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/5/15182142/event-horizon-telescope-black-hole

A VLBI Scrutiny of the Obscuring Torus in NGC1052
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~kadler/research2a.html

The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) was used to image the milliarcsecond structure of the nuclear jet in the elliptical galaxy NGC1052.
The observations were done on December 28th 1998 in full polarization mode at 5, 8.4, 22 and 43 GHz. From the maps at the four frequencies
a movie was produced, which shows the total intensity structure as a function of frequency. Optically thin regions on both sides are seen
to fade away towards higher frequencies. At the base of both jets emission is showing up as the frequency is tuned up. This indicates
the presence of strong absorption presumably caused by an obscuring torus around a supermassive black hole.

Teď skončil první rozhovor s EHT od Sky News. Už čekám, až to zavěsí...:)

Born-again Australian telescope solves mystery of | Cosmos
https://cosmosmagazine.com/...australian-telescope-solves-mystery-of-intergalactic-fast-radio-bursts

A massive technical upgrade of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest radio telescope in pursuit of an answer to one of modern astronomy’s greatest
puzzles has reaped its first dividends, by confirming the origins of the mysterious bursts of radio energy known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

FRBs are short, bright and highly dispersed pulses of radio waves that occur randomly. They typically last just a few milliseconds but register
about a billion times brighter than anything ever observed in the galaxy.

Since they were first detected almost 10 years ago by the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, these enigmatic radio transients have perplexed
astronomers. While they appeared to come from vast distances, their was still a possibility that their origin was closer to home. Were they signals
from far-off galaxies or simply some unknown form of local interference?

Now, thanks to the extensive upgrade of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), located about 350 km south of Parkes near Canberra,
there is a definitive answer. In a paper to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team from Australian
National University, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Sydney and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO),
has confirmed the FRBs do in fact originate from outer space and – in some cases, at least – from galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

UTMOST: the upgraded Molonglo telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7zggLlNISk

New extended ionized gas clouds detected in Abell 1367 cluster
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ionized-gas-clouds-abell-cluster.html

Astronomers have found six new extended ionized gas clouds (EIGs) in the galaxy cluster Abell 1367 (also known as the Leo Cluster).
The discovery expands the current list of the cluster's known EIGs to 11 and provides new clues about the evolution of this group
of galaxies. The researchers detailed their findings in a paper published Mar. 30 on arXiv.org.

The new research paper authored by Masafumi Yagi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and his team reveals
the presence of new EIGs in Abell 1367 and provides more details on the nature of this cluster. In this paper, the researchers
described their observations of the central region of Abell 1367 using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.