1. Space News Update - June 27, 2017 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Amazing New Views of Betelgeuse Courtesy of ALMA
Story 2:
SpaceX Completes a Doubleheader
Story 3: Arp 299: Galactic Goulash
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Amazing New Views of Betelgeuse Courtesy of ALMA
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. SpaceX Completes a Doubleheader

4. Arp 299: Galactic Goulash

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, June 27
• This evening, spot 1st-magnitude Regulus within 1° or 2° of the waxing crescent Moon (for North America).
Wednesday, June 28
• Do you know about the dark Propeller in the familiar M13 star cluster in Hercules? See Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders column in the July Sky & Telescope, page 54.
Thursday, June 29
• The central stars of the constellation Lyra, forming a small triangle and parallelogram, dangle to the lower right from bright Vega high in the east. The two brightest stars of the pattern, after Vega, are the two forming the bottom of the parallelogram: Beta and Gamma Lyrae, Sheliak and Sulafat. They're currently lined up vertically. Beta is the one on top.
Friday, June 30
• First-quarter Moon (exact at 8:51 p.m. EDT). The "star" left of the moon is Jupiter.
• And this evening, the Moon's dark limb will occult (cover) the bright, tight double star Gamma Virginis (Porrima) for much of the U.S. and Canada. The event happens in daylight for the West, twilight for the central longitudes of the continent, and later in darkness for the East.
See more in the July Sky & Telescope, page 50. Here are detailed timetables for hundreds of cities and towns. (The UT date of the event is July 1st.) Plan ahead!
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
No Sighting Opportunities in Denver through July 2, 2017
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone)
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
NASA
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
8:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 28 - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Interviews with Fox News” “Fox and Friends” and Bloomberg News with NASA Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson Starts at 9:40 a.m.) (all channels)
12:30 p.m., Thursday, June 29 - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Event with NASA Flight Engineer Jack Fischer (Starts at 12:35 p.m.) (all channels)
11 a.m., Sunday, July 2 - Release of the SpaceX/Dragon CRS-11 Cargo Craft from the International Space Station (Release scheduled at 11:38 a.m. ET) (Starts at 11:15 a.m.) (all channels)
Tue May 30, 9:16 PM
1 min
14°
14° above N
10° above NNE
Tue May 30, 10:53 PM
< 1 min
10°
10° above N
Wed May 31, 00:30 AM
18°
18° above N
Wed May 31, 10:01 PM
Wed May 31, 11:38 PM
2 min
15°
14° above NE
Thu Jun 1, 9:09 PM
11°
11° above N
Thu Jun 1, 10:45 PM
12°
12° above N
10° above NE
Fri Jun 2, 00:20 AM
17°
10° above NW
17° above NNW
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Jun 23 -[Jun 23] BulgariaSat 1 Falcon 9 Launch, Successful
Jun 23 -[Jun 23] Cartosat 2E Max Valier Sat/ Venta 1/ Blue Diamond/ Green Diamond/ Red Diamond/ COMPASS 2/ InflateSail/ LituanicaSAT 2/ URSA MAIOR/ NUDTSat/ Pegasus/ UCLSat/ VZLUsat 1 PSLV Launch, Successful
Jun 23 - Kosmos (Napryazhenie) Soyuz-2.1v/Volga Launch
Jun 23 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Epimetheus, Daphnis & Pandora
Jun 23 - Comet P/2009 SK280 (Spacewatch-Hill) Closest Approach To Earth (3.771 AU)
Jun 23 - Asteroid 6459 Hidesan Occults HIP 91117 (3.8 Magnitude Star)
Jun 23 - Apollo Asteroid 2102 Tantalus Closest Approach To Earth (0.332 AU)
Jun 23 - Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (1.089 AU)
Jun 23 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.232 AU)
Jun 23 - Asteroid 878 Mildred Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
Jun 24 - Comet 96P/Machholz At Opposition (1.675 AU)
Jun 24 - Aten Asteroid (2010 NY65) Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
Jun 24 - Asteroid 3656 Hemingway Closest Approach To Earth (0.891 AU)
Jun 24 - Asteroid 8209 Toscanelli Closest Approach To Earth (1.174 AU)
Jun 24 - Apollo Asteroid 4257 Ubasti Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
Jun 24 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.908 AU)
Jun 24 - Asteroid 588 Achilles (Jupiter Trojan) Closest Approach To Earth (4.964 AU)
Jun 24 - Martin Perl's 90th Birthday (1927)
Jun 25 -[Jun 21] Iridium Next 11-20 Falcon 9 Launch
Jun 25 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Jun 25 - Comet 73P-Q/Schwassmann-Wachmann Perihelion (0.963 AU)
Jun 25 - Comet 243P/NEAT At Opposition (2.484 AU)
Jun 25 - Comet 131P/Mueller At Opposition (2.893 AU)
Jun 25 - Asteroid Cortina Closest Approach To Earth (1.647 AU)
Jun th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Callisto 9 Flyby
Jun th Anniversary (1992), STS-50 Launch (Space Shuttle Columbia, Spacelab)
Jun 26 - Comet P/2011 A2 (Scotti) At Opposition (2.263 AU)
Jun 26 - Apollo Asteroid Izhdubar Closest Approach To Earth (0.690 AU)
Jun 26 - Aten Asteroid Agni Closest Approach To Earth (0.894 AU)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 6 Hebe Closest Approach To Earth (1.539 AU)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 1539 Borrelly Closest Approach To Earth (2.375 AU)
Jun 26 - Brian Roman's 55th Bithday (1962)
Jun  SpaceOps Workshop 2017, Moscow, Russia
JPL Space Calendar

9. Visual Guide to Solar Eclipses Throughout History
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought
Visual Guide to Solar Eclipses Throughout History

10. Space Image of the Week
Hubble Uses Gravitational Lens to Capture Disk Galaxy
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH team