1. Space News Update - August 30, 2016 - In the News Departments Story 1:
NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby
Story 2:
ALMA Finds Unexpected Trove of Gas Around Larger Stars
Story 3: Test for Damp Ground at Mars' Seasonal Streaks Finds None
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby
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. ALMA Finds Unexpected Trove of Gas Around Larger Stars

4. Test for Damp Ground at Mars' Seasonal Streaks Finds None

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, August 30
If you live in the world's mid-northern latitudes, look for bright Vega passing your zenith around nightfall. Vega goes right through the zenith if you're at latitude 39° north: for instance, near Baltimore, Kansas City, Lake Tahoe, Sendai, Beijing, Athens, Lisbon.
Wednesday, August 31
Before the Moon returns to light the evening next week, explore some lesser-known deep-sky sights in and around Cygnus overhead with Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders column and charts in the September Sky & Telescope, page 54. And in the Swan's northwest wing, learn the binocular asterism Vultus Irrisorie, the Smiley Face. You'll never forget it.
Thursday, September 1
This evening the Saturn-Mars-Antares triangle is perfectly isosceles: 6.1, 6.1, and 4.9 degrees on a side (at nightfall in the Americas). Think photo opportunity.
An annular eclipse of the Sun crosses central Africa from Gabon to Madagascar today. The eclipse is partial for most of Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Accordingly, it's new Moon (exact at 5:03 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time).
Summer is beginning to wane. By the time nightfall is complete now, Cassiopeia has climbed about as high in the northeast as the Big Dipper has declined in the northwest.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Aug 16, 8:15 PM
3 min
59°
59° above SSE
10° above SE
Wed Aug 17, 8:57 PM
15°
12° above WSW
10° above SSW
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
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
Tuesday, August 30
2 p.m. - ISS Expedition Crew News Conference (Whitson, Pesquet, Novitskiy) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
4 p.m. - NASA Television Video File News Feed of the ISS Expedition Crew (Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, Borisenko) Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (Recorded on Aug ) (all channels)
7:30 p.m. - NASA TV Video B-Roll Feed of ISS Expedition Crew (Whitson, Pesquet, Novitskiy) Training and Past Missions (all channels)
8 p.m. - NASA Television Video File News Feed of the ISS Expedition Crew (Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, Borisenko) Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (Recorded on Aug ) (all channels)
Wednesday, August 31
10 a.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition Crew Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (Recorded on Aug ; Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, Borisenko) (all channels)
1 p.m. - ISS Expedition 48 In-Flight Educational Event with the Leslie County High School in Hyden, Kentucky, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) and ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (starts at 1:25 p.m.) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
Thursday, September 1
6:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 48 U.S. EVA # 37 Spacewalk Coverage (Williams and Rubins Spacewalk begins at 8:05 a.m. ET to Retract a Thermal Radiator and Install External Cameras) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar Aug 30 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Aug 30 - Comet C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.881 AU)
Aug 30 - Comet C/2015 TQ209 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.405 AU)
Aug 30 - Comet 330P/Catalina Perihelion (2.953 AU)
Aug 30 - Binary Apollo Asteroid Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.196 AU)
Aug 30 - Plutino (2004 PF115) At Opposition ( AU)
Aug 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 2003 QX113 At Opposition ( AU)
Aug th Anniversary (1991), Yohkoh Launch
Aug 30 - Jack Swigert's 85th Birthday (1931)
Aug 30 - Ernest Rutherford's 145th Birthday (1871)
Aug 30 - Carl Runge's 160th Birthday (1856)
Aug 31 - Comet 73P-AA/Schwassmann-Wachmann Perihelion (1.022 AU)
Aug 31 - Comet 144P/Kushida Perihelion (1.431 AU)
Aug 31 - Comet 25D/Neujmin At Opposition (3.853 AU)
Aug 31 - Comet 232P/Hill At Opposition (4.169 AU)
Aug 31 - Asteroid 8080 Intel Closest Approach To Earth (1.107 AU)
Aug 31 - Asteroid 4352 Kyoto Closest Approach To Earth (1.627 AU)
Aug 31 - Kuiper Belt Object (2003 OP32) At Opposition ( AU)
Aug 31 - Colloquium: A Night on SOFIA, Sydney, Australia
Aug th Anniversary (1991), Noblesville Meteorite Fall in Indiana
Aug 31 - Robert Hanbury Brown's 100th Birthday (1916)
Aug 31 - William Usherwood's 195th Birthday (1821)
Sep 01 - Annular Solar Eclipse (Visible from Central Africa)
Sep 01 - Comet C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.039 AU)
Sep 01 - Comet C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) At Opposition (1.039 AU)
Sep 01 - Comet P/2015 M2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (5.009 AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought
Aliens? “Strong” Signal Detected From Sun-Like Star Being Verified By SETI

10. Space Image of the Week Gamma-rays and Comet Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias)