Astrophiz 58 Dr Jessie Christiansen ~ Flying with @NASA_TESS to a billion planets Today our feature interview is with Dr Jessie Christiansen who started out in rural Queensland in Australia and is now a NASA Staff Scientist and working on exoplanet discovery with the just-launched TESS Mission. Follow @aussiastronomer on Twitter And that’s followed by university toxicology lecturer, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Dr Ian Musgrave of Astroblogger fame, who will tell us ‘What’s Up Doc? Whats up in the evening, night and morning skies for the next two weeks, and in ‘Ian’s Tangent’ we hear about how lasers are used in astronomy. Follow @ianfmusgrave on Twitter In the news: 1. The just-launched relay satellite for the Chang’e 4 lunar mission to the ‘dark side’ of the moon. 2. A new hypothesis to explain repeating FRBs 3. An exciting supernova discovery live during the ABC/BBC Stargazing show. Follow @Astrophiz on Twitter, FB & Insta

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