Space News Update - June , In the News Story 1: Story 1: Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life Story 2: Story 2: Two Women For Tiangong Story 3: Story 3: WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Earth Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life

Two Women For Tiangong

WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Earth

The Night Sky · Monday, June 11 · The two brightest stars of late spring and summer are Arcturus, now almost overhead toward the south or southwest after dark, and Vega, shining partway up the eastern sky. Arcturus is an orange giant 37 light-years away. Vega is a hot, white main-sequence star 25 light-years distant. Tuesday, June 12 · Look a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega for the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. It has one modestly bright star, Alphecca. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the dim Keystone of Hercules. Wednesday, June 13 · Mercury is becoming more easily visible after sunset. Look for it low in the west-northwest in the fading twilight. It forms a long, vertical triangle with Pollux and Castor above it. · Thursday, June 14 · Globular star clusters are not all alike. But some do look more similar than others. With the Moon out of the sky, now is a fine time to compare and contrast many of them in your scope. See the Springtime Globular Cluster Tour in the June Sky & Telescope, page 62. Friday, June 15 · With summer beginning in just five days, Scorpius is already rearing up in the southeast at nightfall. Its brightest star is orange-red Antares. The "outrigger" stars of Antares are just below and upper right of it. Farther upper right is the row of stars marking Scorpius's head. This is a grand area to explore with a sky atlas and binoculars The Big Dipper hangs bowl down high in the northwest these evenings. Alcor here is buried in the glow of Mizar, the star at the bend in the handle. Akira Fujii

ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information For Denver: SATELLITELOCALDURATION MAX ELEV APPROACHDEPARTURE DATE/TIME(MIN)(DEG)(DEG-DIR) ISSMon Jun 11/09:05 PM22727 above NNW10 above NE ISSMon Jun 11/10:43 PM< above N ISSTue Jun 12/00:20 AM11111 above NNE10 above NE ISSTue Jun 12/01:54 AM11810 above NW18 above NNW ISSTue Jun 12/09:48 PM11313 above N10 above NNE ISSTue Jun 12/11:25 PM< above NNE ISSWed Jun 13/01:00 AM22111 above NNW21 above N ISSWed Jun 13/08:53 PM21717 above N11 above NNE ISSWed Jun 13/10:30 PM< above N ISSThu Jun 14/00:07 AM11515 above N15 above NNE ISSThu Jun 14/09:36 PM< above N ISSThu Jun 14/11:13 PM21212 above N10 above NE ISSFri Jun 15/00:47 AM11810 above NW18 above NNW ISSFri Jun 15/10:18 PM< above N10 above NNE ISSFri Jun 15/11:55 PM< above N23 above NNE

NASA-TV Highlights June 14, Thursday 12:30 p.m. - ISS Mission Control Interview with Students from the Galveston, TX School District for the Digital Learning Network - JSC (All Channels) June 15, Friday 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. - Underwater Interactive Media Interviews with NEEMO 16 Commander Dorothy Metcalf- Lindenburger - JSC (Public and Media Channels) Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website.NASA website

Space Calendar · Jun 11 - Comet 138P/Shoemaker-Levy Perihelion (1.701 AU) · Jun 11 - Asteroid 7470 Jabberwock Closest Approach To Earth (1.160 AU) · Jun 11 - Asteroid 7434 Osaka Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU) · Jun 11 - Asteroid 128 Nemesis Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU) · Jun 11 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU) · Jun 11 - Marie Paul Fabry's 145th Birthday (1867) · Jun 12 - Moon Occults Asteroid 2 Pallas · Jun 12 - Asteroid 9619 Terrygilliam Closest Approach To Earth (1.244 AU) · Jun 12 - Asteroid 3869 Norton Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU) · Jun th Anniversary (1967), Venera 4 Launch (Soviet Venus Lander) · Jun 13 - NuStar Pegasus XL Launch · Jun 13 - Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU) · Jun 14 - Asteroid 2012 KM11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU) · Jun 14 - Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (2.102 AU) · Jun 14 - Asteroid Darmstadt Closest Approach To Earth (2.254 AU) · Jun 14 - Kuiper Belt Object Quaoar At Opposition ( AU) · Jun th Anniversary (1967), Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby Mission) · Jun 15 - Asteroid 4103 Chahine Closest Approach To Earth (1.416 AU) · Jun 15 - Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (1.878 AU) · Jun 15 - Asteroid Billcooke Closest Approach To Earth (2.477 AU) JPL Space Calendar

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