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From Cory Mcabee ( Patreon | Website | Bandcamp ) COLLECTIVE ANIMAL NAMES From Cory: Hi my friends, Here are 101 Collective Animal Names. Last week I quickly put together the illustrations and music and then filmed it Thursday morning at a park in Queens. Toward the very end my performance starts to crumble as a group of babies come tumbling around the corner. They made the whole thing work. I hope you like it! -- Putting this on Tumblr since I’m not sure he has much outreach here. This little video side project put a smile on my face today, and I thought it might benefit some of you as well.

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http://www.deepastronomymovie.com

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A Journey into a Black Hole Collision 

Black holes have been largely theoretical until the LIGO observations announced earlier this year. Thanks to those observations, we now have another way to study and observe these amazing celestial objects.

By: Deep Astronomy.

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SFN #159: Hitomi Demise Likely; Blue Origin & #SpaceX Push Frontiers 

Here are the links for this week's episode:

Hitomi dead:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/japanese-x-ray-observatory-seen-spinning-out-of-control/

http://kyodonews.net/news/2016/04/01/55485

Blue Origin Launch:

https://www.blueorigin.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3J-jKb75g

http://time.com/4280343/blue-origin-new-shepard-test/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/04/04/blue_origin_launches_suborbital_rocket_for_the_third_time.html

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/as-nasa-discards-reusable-engines-blue-origin-and-spacex-push-new-frontiers/

SpaceX Landing Success:

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

http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-nails-ocean-landing-160408.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M

By: Deep Astronomy.

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How Cool Is That? Exploring the Low-Temperature Universe 

Although cataclysmic explosions and the fiery furnaces of massive stars are attention-grabbers, many of the most critically important events and physical processes in astronomy take place in the coolest objects in the cosmos: regions wherein stars and planets are born, as just one example.

NASA has begun a series of studies of four concepts that will in a few years’ time produce candidate designs for a major space observatory to begin construction later next decade.

Please join our regular hosts, Tony Darnell, Alberto Conti, and Harley Thronson, as they discuss with Dr. Margaret Meixner from the Space Telescope Science Institute and Dr. David Leisawitz of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center the science that can be revealed by an observatory operating at the longest infrared wavelengths.

By: Deep Astronomy.

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Deep Astronomy Live! The Great Filter (Followup)

The last Deep Astronomy Live! broadcast generated a lot of great discussion in the comments and I want to take come time to respond to many of them specifically, such as these (and many more):

"You're making too many assumptions"

"We haven't been around long enough, nor listening long enough to know for sure if anyone is out there"

"You're arguing that absence of evidence means evidence of absence"

Also, this was timely: http://marketbusinessnews.com/stephen-hawking-warns-of-growing-human-race-self-destruction-risk/121330

Another timely post from Australia:

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-all-extinct

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/why-cant-we-find-aliens-climate-change-killed-them-160121.htm

More further reading:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html

http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-there-are-aliens-out-there-where-are-they/

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901322

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1983QJRAS..24..113S

By: Deep Astronomy.

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The Largest Galaxy In The Universe

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A Space Fan Thanksgiving

Links for this week:

#JWST Milestones:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html

JWST 'Webb' Cam:

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/webcam.html

Frontier Fields:

http://frontierfields.org/meet-the-frontier-fields/

Dark Energy Survey:

http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/

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