1. Space News Update - October 7, 2016 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star
Story 2:
Privately-developed rocket aces abort test
Story 3: Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star
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. Privately-developed rocket aces abort test

4. Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope
Friday, October 7 • The Moon hangs in the south-southwest at dusk. To its lower left shines Mars, orange-yellow. Last night Mars was just 0.2° from the fainter star Lambda Sagittarii (magnitude 2.8). Now Mars is 0.6° to the star's left.
Saturday, October 8
• First-quarter Moon (exact at 12:33 a.m. tonight EDT). This evening the Moon is far below 1st-magnitude Altair and above Mars and the tilting Sagittarius Teapot. Mars, traveling eastward fast, is now 1.3° to the left of Lambda Sagittarii.
Sunday, October 9
• Soon after dark, you'll find zero-magnitude Arcturus low in the west-northwest at the same height as zero-magnitude Capella in the northeast. When this happens, turn to the south-southeast, and there will be 1st-magnitude Fomalhaut at the same height too — if you're at latitude 43° north. Seen from south of that latitude, Fomalhaut will appear higher; from north of there it will be lower.
Monday, October 10
• Jupiter and fainter Mercury have a close conjunction on Tuesday morning the 11th. Look low due east about 45 minutes before your local sunrise time. They'll be 0.8° apart at the times of dawn for North America, with Mercury to Jupiter's left.
Tuesday, October 11
• Vega is the brightest star very high in the west at nightfall. Arcturus, equally bright, is getting low in the west-northwest. The brightest star in the vast expanse between them, about a third of the way from Arcturus back up toward Vega, is Alphecca, magnitude 2.2 — the crown jewel of Corona Borealis. Alphecca is a 17-day eclipsing binary, but its brightness dips are too slight for the eye to see reliably.
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6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Oct 7, 6:52 PM
3 min
14°
11° above NW
10° above NNE
Fri Oct 7, 8:30 PM
< 1 min
10°
10° above N
Sat Oct 8, 7:38 PM
Sun Oct 9, 8:22 PM
11°
10° above NNW
11° above N
Mon Oct 10, 7:30 PM
1 min
Tue Oct 11, 8:14 PM
14° above N
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)
3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Friday, October 7 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (all channels)
4 p.m., Friday, October 7 - International Space Station Flyover of Hurricane Matthew (starts at 4:45 p.m.) (all channels)
1 a.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Saturday, October 8 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (NTV-1 (Public))
8 a.m., 8 p.m., Saturday, October 8 - Replay of NASA Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with “Aspira con NASA/Aspire with NASA” (all channels)
1 p.m., 10 p.m., Saturday, October 8 - Replay of NASM’S “STEM in 30” - A Sky Full of Color: Live from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (NTV-1 (Public))
1 a.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Sunday, October 9 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (NTV-1 (Public))
8:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m., Sunday, October 9 - Replay of NASM’S “STEM in 30” - A Sky Full of Color: Live from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (NTV-1 (Public))
10 a.m., 5 p.m., Sunday, October 9 - Replay of NASA Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with “Aspira con NASA/Aspire with NASA” (all channels)
1 a.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Monday, October 10 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (NTV-1 (Public))
8 a.m., 8 p.m., Monday, October 10 - Replay of NASA Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with “Aspira con NASA/Aspire with NASA” (all channels)
1 p.m., 10 p.m., Monday, October 10 - Replay of NASM’S “STEM in 30” - A Sky Full of Color: Live from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (NTV-1 (Public))
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Oct 07 - Comet 208P/McMillan At Opposition (1.624 AU)
Oct 07 - Comet 325P/Yang-Gao At Opposition (2.798 AU)
Oct 07 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 SR2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
Oct 07 - [Oct 03] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TG Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
Oct 07 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 SP2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
Oct 07 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 LB9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Oct 07 - Asteroid Ohm Closest Approach To Earth (1.712 AU)
Oct 07 - James Webb's 110th Birthday (1906)
Oct 08 - [Oct 01] Astronomy Day
Oct 08 - [Oct 01] International Observe The Moon Night
Oct 08 - Comet 73P-BB/Schwassmann-Wachmann Perihelion (1.004 AU)
Oct 08 - Comet 297P/Beshore At Opposition (3.206 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 2010 RO64 Occults HIP 6687 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
Oct 08 - [Oct 03] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TC Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid Roadrunner Closest Approach To Earth (1.176 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 3837 Carr Closest Approach To Earth (1.454 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 1140 Crimea Closest Approach To Earth (1.498 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid Cuba Closest Approach To Earth (1.937 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid Joule Closest Approach To Earth (2.384 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid Pohl Closest Approach To Earth (2.748 AU)
Oct 08 - Edward Wright's 455th Birthday (1561)
Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
Oct 09 - Comet 279P/La Sagra Closest Approach To Earth (1.267 AU)
Oct 09 - Comet 250P/Larson Closest Approach To Earth (2.760 AU)
Oct 09 - Comet C/2014 C1 (TOTAS) At Opposition (3.395 AU)
Oct 09 - Comet 87P/Bus At Opposition (3.731 AU)
Oct 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2012 SL50 Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
Oct 09 - Aten Asteroid 2100 Ra-Shalom Closest Approach To Earth (0.150 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (3.310 AU)
Oct 10 - Comet C/2016 R3 (Borisov) Perihelion (0.449 AU)
Oct 10 - [Sep 30] Comet C/2016 S1 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.317 AU)
Oct 10 - [Oct 04] Amor Asteroid 2016 SF17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
Oct 10 - Amor Asteroid 2010 SG15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Oct 10 - Aten Asteroid 2013 LC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
Oct 10 - Kuiper Belt Object (2005 QU182) At Opposition ( AU)
Oct 10 - Zhai Zhigang's 50th Birthday (1966)
Oct th Anniversary (1846), William Lassell's Discovery of Neptune Moon Triton
Oct 10 - Henry Cavendish's 285th Birthday (1731)
Oct 11 - Mercury Passes 0.9 Degrees from Jupiter
Oct 11 - Comet C/2014 E1 (Larson) At Opposition (3.870 AU)
Oct 11 - [Oct 07] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TJ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Regional solar storm forecasts set to begin
Food for Thought
Regional solar storm forecasts set to begin

10. Hurricane Matthew Brushes Florida Coast
Space Image of the Week
Hurricane Matthew Brushes Florida Coast