1. Space News Update - August 19, 2016 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Classical nova captured before, during and after exploding
Story 2:
2017’s Total Solar Eclipse: One Year to Go!
Story 3: Beyond Neptune, a chunk of ice is orbiting the sun in the wrong direction
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Classical nova captured before, during and after exploding
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. 2017’s Total Solar Eclipse: One Year to Go!

4. Beyond Neptune, a chunk of ice is orbiting the sun in the wrong direction

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, August 19
• You can tell that summer is on the decline, temperatures notwithstanding: when darkness falls, Cassiopeia has now risen about as high in the northeast as the Big Dipper has declined in the northwest.
Saturday, August 20
• The waning gibbous Moon rises due east around the end of twilight this evening. Look to its upper left for the Great Square of Pegasus tipped up on one corner — another sign of fall's approach.
Sunday, August 21
• With August nearing its end, you can say hi to the Double Cluster in Perseus without having to stay up late. After dark, find the tilted W of Cassiopeia partway up the northeastern sky. Note the two stars of its lower-left segment (the faint end of the W). Using binoculars, aim at the midpoint between them and then drop down by a little more than the full width of the binocular's view (for typical binoculars). Look for two little irregular cotton puffs, touching each other and tilted diagonally.
With a dark enough sky, you can even make them out with the unaided eye — as a distinct enhancement of the background Milky Way.
Monday, August 22
• Are you following Venus and Jupiter closing in on each other? After sunset today they're 6° apart very low above the horizon due west. Jupiter is to Venus's left or upper left. They're heading toward a close conjunction on August 27th.
Also, use binoculars for a try at faint and fading Mercury, 4° below or lower left of Jupiter.
Tuesday, August 23
• Saturn, Mars, and Antares finally line up. They make a nearly straight, nearly vertical line in the south-southwest as the stars come out, as shown above. Tomorrow the line will be nearly as straight, but with Mars now on the other side of the Saturn-Antares line (at the time of twilight for the Americas).
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
No Sightings for Denver
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)
7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Saturday, August 20 - Replay of Space Station Live (8/18/16) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
2 p.m., 8 p.m., Saturday, August 20 - Replay of the NASA Pre-Launch News Briefing on NASA Asteroid-Bound OSIRIS-Rex Spacecraft (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Sunday, August 21 - Replay of Space Station Live (8/18/16) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday, August 21 - Replay of the NASA Pre-Launch News Briefing on NASA Asteroid-Bound OSIRIS-Rex Spacecraft (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
10 a.m., Tuesday, August 23 - ISS Expedition 48 In-Flight Interview for ABC News and Facebook Live with Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Richard Besser and ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (starts at 10:25 a.m.) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-3 (Media))
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Aug 19 - [Aug 18] GSSAP-3/GSSAP-4 (AFSPC 6) Delta 4 Launch
Aug 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #459 (OTM-459)
Aug 19 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Aug 19 - Moon Occults Neptune
Aug 19 - Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (1.268 AU)
Aug 19 - Asteroid 2039 Payne-Gaposchkin Closest Approach To Earth (2.585 AU)
Aug 19 - Charles Bolden's 70th Birthday (1946)
Aug 19 - Orville Wright's 145th Birthday (1871)
Aug 19 - John Flamsteed's 370th Birthday (1646)
Aug 20 - Comet 43P/Wolf-Harrington Perihelion (1.358 AU)
Aug 20 - Asteroid 164 Eva Occults HIP 64792 (5.3 Magnitude Star)
Aug 20 - Amor Asteroid 2014 RW22 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
Aug 20 - Apollo Asteroid YORP Closest Approach To Earth (0.598 AU)
Aug 20 - Apollo Asteroid 1863 Antinous Closest Approach To Earth (0.766 AU)
Aug 21 - Comet 255P/Levy At Opposition (1.919 AU)
Aug 21 - [Aug 15] Comet P/2016 P2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.433 AU)
Aug 21 - Comet C/2015 W1 (Gibbs) Closest Approach To Earth (2.769 AU)
Aug 21 - Asteroid 2 Pallas At Opposition (8.7 Magnitude)
Aug 21 - Asteroid Hannover Closest Approach To Earth (1.248 AU)
Aug 21 - Apollo Asteroid 3361 Orpheus Closest Approach To Earth (1.654 AU)
Aug 21 - Asteroid Lake Placid Closest Approach To Earth (2.562 AU)
Aug 21 - Apollo Asteroid 4197 Morpheus Closest Approach To Earth (2.842 AU)
Aug 22 - Comet 333P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.482 AU)
Aug 22 - Comet 33P/Daniel Perihelion (2.160 AU)
Aug 22 - Comet C/2012 LP26 (Palomar) At Opposition (5.982 AU)
Aug 22 - Asteroid Coulomb Closest Approach To Earth (1.752 AU)
Aug 22 - Karl Kustner's 160th Birthday (1856)
Aug 23 - [Aug 18] 50th Anniversary (1966), 1st Photo of Earth from Moon (Lunar Orbiter 1)
Aug 23 - Comet 18D/Perrine-Mrkos Closest Approach To Earth (1.563 AU)
Aug 23 - Comet P/2015 F1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (2.602 AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Colorado Towns Work to Preserve a Diminishing Resource: Darkness
Food for Thought
Colorado Towns Work to Preserve a Diminishing Resource: Darkness

10. Meteor before Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
Space Image of the Week
Meteor before Galaxy  Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich