space news update - september 11, 2014 - in the news story 1: new pluto images from nasa’s new...
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Space News Update- September 11, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated
Story 2:Dawn gets better look at bright spots on Ceres
Story 3: NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart
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The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
Space CalendarNASA-TV Highlights
Food for ThoughtSpace Image of the Week
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New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated
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The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
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Dawn gets better look at bright spots on Ceres
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The NightSky
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NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart
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The Night Sky
Sky & Telescope
Friday, September 11How soon after sunset can you identify the big Summer Triangle? Vega, its brightest star, is nearly straight overhead (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes). Deneb is the first bright star to Vega's east-northeast. Altair shines less high in the southeast.Thin-Moon challenge: Saturday's dawn offers a chance to try to set your record old-Moon sighting. Look just above the eastern horizon as dawn grows bright, as shown here. Bring binoculars or a telescope.If you detect the Moon, note the time. Then see how close this is to the time of new Moon: 2:41 a.m. Sunday morning September 13th Eastern Daylight Time (6:41 September 13th UT).
Saturday, September 12The Great Square of Pegasus is high in the east after dark, balancing on one corner.From the Great Square's left corner extends the big line of three stars, running to the lower left, that mark the head, backbone and leg of the constellation Andromeda. (The line of three includes the corner.)Upper left from the end of this line, you'll find W-shaped Cassiopeia tilting up.
Sunday, September 13If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, this is a good time of year to spot the false dawn: the morning zodiacal light. Look east before true dawn begins, meaning at least 90 minutes before sunrise. The zodiacal light is an enormous, tall pyramid of smooth, gentle glow. It extends to the upper right along the zodiac through Mars and Venus to Gemini. What you're seeing is interplanetary dust in the plane of the ecliptic, lit by sunlight.Don't confuse the zodiacal light with the Milky Way, more lumpy and irregular, to its right!
Monday, September 14Altair is the brightest star in the south after dark. Look for Gamma Aquilae (Tarazed) to its upper right by a finger-width at arm's length, and fainter Beta Aquilae a little farther on the opposite side of Altair. Delphinus, the Dolphin, is about a fist-width to Altair's left.
Tuesday, September 15As dusk turns to night, Arcturus twinkles due west. It's getting lower every week. Off to its right in the northwest, the Big Dipper is turning more and more level.
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ISS Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
Date Visible Max Height Appears Disappears
Fri Sep 11, 4:37 AM 1 min 32° 32 above ESE 19 above E
Fri Sep 11, 6:11 AM 5 min 27° 11 above W 10 above NNE
Sat Sep 12, 5:19 AM 3 min 47° 37 above WNW 17 above NE
Sun Sep 13, 4:28 AM < 1 min 28° 28 above NE 23 above NE
Sun Sep 13, 6:01 AM 4 min 17° 10 above WNW 10 above NNE
Mon Sep 14, 5:10 AM 3 min 25° 24 above NW 10 above NNE
Tue Sep 15, 4:20 AM < 1 min 19° 19 above NNE 13 above NE
Tue Sep 15, 5:54 AM 3 min 12° 10 above NW 10 above NNE
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NASA-TV Highlights
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5 p.m., Friday, September 11 - ISS Expedition 44/Soyuz TMA-16M Undocking Coverage (undocking scheduled at 5:29 p.m. ET) (all channels)
7:30 p.m., Friday, September 11 - ISS Expedition 44/Soyuz TMA-16M Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Deorbit burn scheduled at 7:59 p.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 8:51 p.m. ET) (all channels)
10 p.m., Friday, September 11 - Video File of the ISS Expedition 44/Soyuz TMA-16M Landing and Post-Landing Activities (all channels)
9 a.m., Monday, September 14 - ISS One-Year Crew Update from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (includes an in-flight interview at 9:05 a.m. ET with Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA) (all channels)
10 a.m., Monday, September 14 - Video File of the ISS Expedition 44/Soyuz TMA-16M Landing and Post-Landing Activities; scheduled to include a post-landing interview with Visiting Crew member Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency and the return of Expedition 44 Commander Gennady (all channels)
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
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JPL Space Calendar
Sep 11 - [Sep 10] Soyuz TMA-16M Return to Earth (International Space Station)Sep 11 - [Sep 10] Galileo FM9 & FM10 Soyuz STB-Fregat-M LaunchSep 11 - Comet 104P/Kowal Closest Approach To Earth (1.551 AU)Sep 11 - Asteroid 472 Roma Closest Approach To Earth (1.481 AU)Sep 11 - Asteroid 232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.900 AU)Sep 11 - Asteroid 4457 van Gogh Closest Approach To Earth (1.999 AU)Sep 11 - Asteroid 334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.861 AU)Sep 11 - 30th Anniversary (1985), ICE, Comet Giacobini-Zinner FlybySep 11 - Gherman Titov's 80th Birthday (1935)Sep 12 - Comet 174P/Echeclus At Opposition (4.851 AU)Sep 12 - Comet 95P/Chiron At Opposition (17.178 AU)Sep 12 - Apollo Asteroid 6239 Minos Closest Approach To Earth (0.407 AU)Sep 12 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU)Sep 12 - 10th Anniversary (2005), Hayabusa, Asteroid 25143 Itokawa ArrivalSep 12 - 45th Anniversary (1970), Luna 16 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return)Sep 12 - 845th Anniversary (1170), Gervase's Observation of Transit of Mars Across JupiterSep 13 - [Sep 07] Partial Solar Eclipse, Visible From South Africa, AntarcticaSep 13 - Comet P/1999 XN120 (Catalina) At Opposition (3.115 AU)Sep 13 - Comet 280P/Larsen At Opposition (3.516 AU)Sep 13 - Comet 30P/Reinmuth At Opposition (3.718 AU)Sep 13 - Asteroid 896 Sphinx Closest Approach To Earth (1.304 AU)Sep 13 - Asteroid 1602 Indiana Closest Approach To Earth (1.458 AU)Sep 13 - Asteroid 4122 Ferrari Closest Approach To Earth (1.687 AU)Sep 13 - Asteroid 45 Eugenia Closest Approach To Earth (1.803 AU)Sep 14 - Express AM-8 Proton-M Briz-M LaunchSep 14 - Comet 157P/Tritton Closest Approach To Earth (1.989 AU)Sep 14 - Aten Asteroid 2014 KS76 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)Sep 14 - Asteroid 37452 Spirit Closest Approach To Earth (2.319 AU)Sep 14 - Phobos and Deimos Webcast: Introduction - Discovery, Physical Properties, OrbitSep 14 - Gene Trinh's 65th Birthday (1950)Sep 14 - John Dobson's 100th Birthday (1915)Sep 14-20 - [Sep 07] Astronomy WeekSep 15 - Comet 151/Helin At Opposition (1.477 AU)Sep 15 - Comet C/2013 P3 (Palomar) Closest Approach To Earth (7.845 AU)Sep 15 - Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.160 AU)Sep 15 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.472 AU)Sep 15 - Apollo Asteroid 5143 Heracles Closest Approach To Earth (2.245 AU)Sep 15 - 50th Anniversary (1965), "Lost in Space" Debuts on TVSep 15 - Michiel Overbeek's 95th Birthday (1920)Sep 15 - 105th Anniversary (1910), Theodor Wulf Proposes Cosmic Radiation Comes From Outer Space
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Food for Thought
Oxygen is not definitive evidence of life on habitable extrasolar planets
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Hubble Sees a Galactic SunflowerImage credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA