1. Space News Update - June 7, 2016 - In the News Departments Story 1:
VLA Reveals New Information on Workings of Jupiter's Atmosphere
Story 2:
Pioneering Physicist Carroll Alley Dies
Story 3: Some Comets are like Couples: They Break Up, then Make Up
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. VLA Reveals New Information on Workings of Jupiter's Atmosphere
In this computer graphic, NASA's Voyager 1 probe, moving toward upper left, nears the edge of the sun's influence, flying through a region of space dominated by a "magnetic highway" that helps mediate the flow of particles into and out of the solar system. The region includes particles from the sun's southern hemisphere that have been forced northward by the pressure of the interstellar wind. Voyager 1 is expected to cross the boundary into interstellar space sometime within the next few years if not sooner. (Credit: NASA)

3. Pioneering Physicist Carroll Alley Dies

4. Some Comets are like Couples: They Break Up, then Make Up

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, June 7
As darkness arrives these evenings, look south about halfway between Jupiter and Mars. One star there stands out: Spica, in Virgo. High above it shines brighter Arcturus in Bootes. Half as far to Spica's lower right is the constellation Corvus, the Crow, eyeing Spica to steal it from Virgo's hand.
Wednesday, June 8
With June well under way, the Big Dipper has swung around to hang down by its handle high in the northwest during evening. The middle star of its handle is Mizar, with tiny little Alcor right next to it. On which side of Mizar should you look for Alcor? As always, on the side facing Vega! Which now shines in the east-northeast.
Thursday, June 9
Look upper left of the thick crescent Moon at nightfall for Regulus, as shown here. Upper left of Regulus by 14° shines Jupiter, much brighter.
A 3-inch telescope will show Saturn's biggest and brightest moon, 8.5-magnitude Titan. Tonight it's east of Saturn, by about four times the length of Saturn's rings. Can you see its orange tint?
Watch the Moon stepping past Regulus and Jupiter
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Jun 7, 00:15 AM
< 1 min
16°
10° above NW
16° above NW
Tue Jun 7, 9:47 PM
2 min
12°
11° above N
10° above NE
Tue Jun 7, 11:23 PM
1 min
35°
22° above NNW
35° above N
Wed Jun 8, 8:54 PM
11°
10° above N
10° above NNE
Wed Jun 8, 10:31 PM
26°
21° above N
20° above ENE
Thu Jun 9, 00:06 AM
10° above WNW
12° above WNW
Thu Jun 9, 9:38 PM
3 min
18°
15° above N
11° above ENE
Thu Jun 9, 11:14 PM
15° above NW
35° above WNW
Fri Jun 10, 10:22 PM
51°
27° above NNW
37° above E
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone) 
Tuesday, June 7
10 a.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition Crew’s Departure from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Ivanishin, Rubins, Onishi) (all channels)
Wednesday, June 8
10 a.m. - ISS Expedition 47 In-Flight Event for ESA with British Media and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (all channels)
Thursday, June 9
9:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 47 In-Flight Interview for WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee with Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA (starts at 9:45 a.m. ET) (all channels)
1 p.m. - Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum Presents - “What’s New in Aerospace?” – Appropriate Attire with NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman - HQ (NTV-1) (NTV-1 (Public))
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Jun 07 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jun 07 - Comet 73P-AY/Schwassmann-Wachmann Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jun 07 - Comet 73P-AZ/Schwassmann-Wachmann Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jun 07 - Comet P/2010 N1 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (0.741 AU)
Jun 07 - Comet P/2004 T1 (LINEAR-NEAT) At Opposition (2.870 AU)
Jun 07 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 LT1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.001 AU)
Jun 07 - Asteroid Tyson Closest Approach To Earth (1.025 AU)
Jun 07 - Apollo Asteroid Didymos Closest Approach To Earth (1.742 AU)
Jun 07 - Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (1.855 AU)
Jun 07 - Asteroid Grammier Closest Approach To Earth (2.029 AU)
Jun th Anniversary (1956), Dogs Albina & Kozyavka Launched Into Space
Jun th Joint Space Resources Roundtable (SRR)/Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) Meeting, Golden, Colorado
Jun 08 - World Oceans Day
Jun 08 - Echostar 18/ BRIsat Ariane 5 Launch
Jun 08 - Comet P/2010 N1 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (0.736 AU)
Jun 08 - Amor Asteroid 2016 JV Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
Jun 08 - Asteroid 2864 Soderblom Closest Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
Jun 08 - Asteroid 8629 Chucklorre Closest Approach To Earth (2.295 AU)
Jun 08 - Kuiper Belt Object Varda At Opposition ( AU)
Jun 09 - Comet P/2001 H5 (NEAT) At Opposition (2.088 AU)
Jun 09 - NROL-37 Delta 4 Launch
Jun 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 LR Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
Jun 09 - Aten Asteroid 2009 KR4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 2579 Spartacus Closest Approach To Earth (1.032 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (1.740 AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. NASA Radar Finds Ice Age Record in Mars' Polar Cap
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought
NASA Radar Finds Ice Age Record in Mars' Polar Cap

10. Space Image of the Week Comet PanSTARRS and the Helix Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich