1. Space News Update - July 29, 2016 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source
Story 2:
Chorus of black holes radiates X-rays
Story 3: Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source
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. Chorus of black holes radiates X-rays

4. Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, July 29
• Bright Vega now passes almost straight overhead around 11 p.m. daylight-saving time, depending on your location. As with all star configurations, you'll see this happening two hours earlier each month.
Saturday, July 30
• As summer proceeds, Scorpius shifts westward from its highest stance in the south just after dark, and Sagittarius moves in from the east to take its place. So we're entering prime time for the profusion of Messier objects in and above Sagittarius. How many can you locate with a map and binoculars?
Start with M8, the big Lagoon Nebula. It's 6° above the spout-tip of the Sagittarius Teapot pattern.
Sunday, July 31
• The tail of Scorpius lies low due south right after dark. Look for the two stars especially close together in the tail. These are Lambda and fainter Upsilon Scorpii, known as the Cat's Eyes. They're canted at an angle; the cat is tilting his head and squinting one eye.
The Cat's Eyes point west (right) by nearly a fist-width toward Mu Scorpii, a much tighter pair known as the Little Cat's Eyes. It takes very sharp vision to resolve Mu without binoculars!
Monday, August 1
• Shortly after sunset, Jupiter, Mercury, faint Regulus and Venus form a diagonal line in the west, as shown here. The line is 27° long. Look early in twilight and bring binoculars, because Venus is only about 4° high even just 20 minutes after sundown (for skywatchers near 40° north latitude). Regulus may be impossible. Good luck.
Tuesday, August 2
• Explore faint little Lacerta, the Lizard tucked between Cygnus and Andromeda, using binoculars and Mathew Wedel's Binocular Highlights column and map in the August Sky & Telescope, page 43. Can you make out the little arrowhead of NGC 7243?
• New Moon (exact at 4:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time).
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Jul 29, 9:36 PM
5 min
30°
11° above W
11° above NNE
Fri Jul 29, 11:16 PM
< 1 min
11°
11° above N
10° above N
Sat Jul 30, 8:42 PM
6 min
52°
10° above WSW
12° above NE
Sat Jul 30, 10:23 PM
1 min
13°
13° above N
10° above NNE
Sun Jul 31, 00:00 AM
10°
Sun Jul 31, 9:29 PM
2 min
18°
18° above NNW
Sun Jul 31, 11:07 PM
Mon Aug 1, 8:36 PM
3 min
26°
26° above NNW
Mon Aug 1, 10:13 PM
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)
7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m. Saturday, July 30 - Replay of Space Station Live (7/29/16) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
1 p.m., Saturday, July 30 - Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum Presents - “What’s New in Aerospace?” – Milestones: Inside Stories (NTV-1 (Public))
8 p.m., Saturday, July 30 - Replay of “What’s New in Aerospace?” – Milestones: Inside Stories (NTV-1 (Public))
7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Sunday, July 31 - Replay of Space Station Live (7/29/16) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
10 a.m., 6 p.m. Sunday, July 31 - Replay of “What’s New in Aerospace?” – Milestones: Inside Stories (NTV-1 (Public))
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Jul 29 - Moon Occults Aldebaran
Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Jul 29 - Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova Closest Approach To Earth (1.526 AU)
Jul 29 - Aten Asteroid 2016 NF23 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 7758 Poulanderson Closest Approach To Earth (1.166 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 1554 Yugoslavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.235 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.241 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid Steviewonder Closest Approach To Earth (1.519 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 991 McDonalda Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (1986), Kokubunji Meteorite Fall (Hit Houses, Roads in Japan)
Jul 30 - Comet P/2008 T1 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (2.104 AU)
Jul 30 - Comet C/2015 X7 (ATLAS) Perihelion (3.685 AU)
Jul 30 - Asteroid 564 Dudu Occults HIP 22850 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
Jul 30 - Apollo Asteroid 5011 Ptah Closest Approach To Earth (1.429 AU)
Jul 30 - Asteroid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.701 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (2001), WMAP, Moon Flyby
Jul th Anniversary (1916), Grigory Neujmin's Discovery of Asteroid 951 Gaspra
Jul 31 - Comet C/2015 M3 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (3.671 AU)
Jul 31 - Atira Asteroid 2010 XB11 Closest Approach To Earth (0.741 AU)
Jul 31 - Asteroid Buddy Closest Approach To Earth (1.965 AU)
Jul 31 - Asteroid Beegees Closest Approach To Earth (2.095 AU)
Jul 31 - Asteroid 4772 Frankdrake Closest Approach To Earth (2.162 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (2006), Jodiya Meteorite Fall (Hit Houses in India)
Jul th Anniversary (1971), Dave Scott Becomes 1st Person To Drive Vehicle on Moon (Apollo 15)
Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 01 - Comet 73P-AF/Schwassmann-Wachmann Closest Approach To Earth (0.277 AU)
Aug 01 - Comet 311P/PANSTARRS Closest Approach To Earth (1.267 AU)
Aug 01 - Comet 59P/Kearns-Kwee At Opposition (4.085 AU)
Aug 01 - Asteroid 1373 Cincinnati Closest Approach To Earth (2.143 AU)
Aug 01 - [Jul 29] Kuiper Belt Object 2013 AT183 At Opposition ( AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Food for Thought
Apollo astronauts experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular-related deaths

10. Hubble Gazes at Long-dead Star
Space Image of the Week
Hubble Gazes at Long-dead Star