1. Space News Update - July 4, 2017 - In the News Departments Story 1:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
Story 2:
Astronomers Detect Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
Story 3: NASA’S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
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. Astronomers Detect Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes

4. NASA’S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope
Waxing toward full, the Moon passes over Antares and Saturn later in the week.
Tuesday, July 4
Waiting for fireworks to start? Point out some sky sights to folks around you. The waxing gibbous Moon is almost due south at dusk. Look lower left of it for orange Antares, one of the brightest "red" supergiants in the sky. Left of Antares is Saturn. Meanwhile, much farther to the right of the Moon, Jupiter shines brightly in the southwest.
Wednesday, July 5
The Moon shines above orange Antares this evening. Upper right of Antares, and lower right of the Moon, is the near-vertical row of three stars marking the head of Scorpius. The top star of the row is Beta Scorpii or Graffias, a fine double star for telescopes.
Just 1° below Beta Sco is the fainter, very wide naked-eye pair Omega1 and Omega2 Scorpii, not quite vertical. Binoculars may show their slight color difference.
Left of Beta by 1.6° is Nu Scorpii, another fine telescopic double. High power in good seeing reveals that Nu's brighter component is itself a close binary, separation 2 arcseconds.
Thursday, July 6
Catch golden Saturn shining about 3° below the waxing gibbous Moon.

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Wed Jul 5, 4:24 AM
4 min
25°
13° above S
15° above E
Thu Jul 6, 3:34 AM
2 min
13°
13° above SE
10° above E
Thu Jul 6, 5:07 AM
61°
10° above WSW
42° above NNE
Fri Jul 7, 4:17 AM
3 min
66°
29° above SW
33° above ENE
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)
Thursday, July 6
12 p.m. - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Educational Event with the Wallingford Public Library in Wallingford, Connecticut and Flight Engineers Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson of NASA (all channels)
Friday, July 7
10:30 a.m, - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Event with NowThis.com and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA (starts at 10:45 a.m.) (all channels)
12 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition Crew Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (Recorded on July 6 and 7; Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, Nespoli) (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
Jul th Anniversary (1997), Mars Pathfinder, Mars Landing
Jul 04 - Comet C/2017 K4 (ATLAS) Closest Approach To Earth (2.318 AU)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 1279 Uganda Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 9617 Grahamchapman Closest Approach To Earth (1.458 AU)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 3106 Morabito Closest Approach To Earth (2.571 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-I/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.681 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-B/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.682 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-D/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.683 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-H/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.683 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-A/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.684 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-E/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.685 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 332P-C/Ikeya-Murakami Closest Approach To Earth (2.686 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet 131P/Mueller Closest Approach To Earth (2.877 AU)
Jul 05 - Comet P/2006 F1 (Kowalski) Closest Approach To Earth (3.174 AU)
Jul 05 - Apollo Asteroid 2017 MB5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
Jul 05 - Apollo Asteroid 2017 BM31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
Jul 05 - Apollo Asteroid 2017 MS7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid 4536 Drewpinsky Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid 1221 Amor Closest Approach To Earth (1.227 AU)
Jul 05 - Binary Apollo Asteroid Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.529 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid Benclark Closest Approach To earth (1.721 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid Chuckjones Closest Approach To Earth (2.178 AU)
Jul 05 - Andrew Douglass' 150th Birthday (1867)
Jul th Anniversary (1687), Isaac Newton's Principia Published
Jul Intelsat 35e Falcon 9 Launch
Jul 06 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Daphnis & Pan
JPL Space Calendar

9. What Caused the Kuiper Belt to Get Warped?
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought
What Caused the Kuiper Belt to Get Warped?

10. Space Image of the Week
The M81 Galaxy Group through the Integrated Flux Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright : D. Lopez & A. Rosenberg, IAC