1. Space News Update - July 10, 2018 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Listen: Sound of Electromagnetic Energy Moving Between Saturn, Enceladus
Story 2:
Crew Dragon completes thermal vacuum tests ahead of first test flight
Story 3: New Insights into What Might Have Smashed Uranus over Onto Its Side
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Listen: Sound of Electromagnetic Energy Moving Between Saturn, Enceladus
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)
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3. Crew Dragon completes thermal vacuum tests ahead of first test flight

4. New Insights into What Might Have Smashed Uranus over Onto Its Side

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, July 10
• If you have a dark enough sky, the Milky Way now forms a magnificent arch high across the eastern heavens after nightfall is complete. It runs all the way from below Cassiopeia in the north-northeast, up and across Cygnus and the Summer Triangle in the east, and down to the south behind Saturn and the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot.
Wednesday, July 11
• The Cygnus Milky Way is high in the east after dark and passes overhead late at night. The Heart Star of Cygnus, and the center of the Northern Cross, is 2nd-magnitude Sadr (Gamma Cygni), smack in the Milky Way's midst. Binoculars will show the roughly heart-shaped ring of faint stars around and including it. Explore this area with Matt Wedel's Binocular Highlight column and chart in the July Sky & Telescope, page 43.
Thursday, July 12
• Three doubles at the top of Scorpius. The head of Scorpius — the nearly vertical row of three stars upper right of Antares — stands highest in the south right after dark, about two fists at arm's length to the left of bright Jupiter. The top star of the row is Beta (ß) Scorpii or Graffias, a fine double star for telescopes.
Just 1° below or lower left of it (a fingertip at arm's length) is the very wide naked-eye pair Omega1and Omega2 Scorpii, not quite vertical. Binoculars show their slight color difference.
Upper left of of Beta by 1.6° is Nu Scorpii (Jabbah), another fine telescopic double. Or rather triple. High power in good seeing reveals that Nu's brighter component is itself a close binary, separation 2 arcseconds.
• New Moon (exact at 10:48 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time).
Friday, July 13
• Cassiopeia is now well past its annual bottoming out due north. Look for its W pattern climbing low in the north-northeast after dark. The farther north you live, the higher it will be.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Jul 10, 2:40 AM
< 1 min
32°
32° above N
23° above NNE
Tue Jul 10, 4:15 AM
2 min
12°
10° above NW
11° above N
Wed Jul 11, 1:49 AM
16°
16° above NE
10° above NE
Wed Jul 11, 3:22 AM
12° above NW
15° above N
Wed Jul 11, 5:00 AM
1 min
10°
10° above N
Thu Jul 12, 2:31 AM
22°
22° above NNW
18° above N
Thu Jul 12, 4:08 AM
10° above NNW
Fri Jul 13, 1:41 AM
17°
17° above NNE
Fri Jul 13, 3:15 AM
Fri Jul 13, 4:53 AM
11°
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)
July 10, Tuesday  10:30 a.m.  – Station astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor talks with NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (All Channels) 1 p.m. – The New Space Age: A Conversation with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Politico Live (All Channels) 2:10 p.m. – Station astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency talks with NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia (All Channels) 6 p.m., 8 p.m. p.m. – The New Space Age: A Conversation with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Politico Live (All Channels)
July 11, Wednesday 10:15 a.m.  – Station astronaut Ricky Arnold talks with the Trena Ferrell/Goddard Spaceflight Center Summer Camps in Greenbelt, Maryland (All Channels) 11 a.m. – National Science Foundation Press Conference on astrophysics findings led by NSF’s IceCube Neutrino Observatory
July 13, Friday                        12 p.m. –  Station astronaut Ricky Arnold talks with the Sea Education Association in Falmouth, Massachusetts (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Jul 10 - Moon Occults Aldebaran
Jul 10 - Apollo Asteroid Didymos Closest Approach To Earth (1.296 AU)
Jul  Meeting: Astrochemistry - Past, Present and Future, Pasadena, California
Jul  2018 Colloquium on QTT Science and Technology, Urumqi, China
Jul 11 - Asteroid 1388 Aphrodite Closest Approach To Earth (1.770 AU)
Jul 11 - Asteroid Copenhagen Closest Approach To Earth (1.787 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (1868), Ornans Meteorite Fall in Franc
Jul 12 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (26 Degrees)
Jul 12 - Jupiter Trojan Asteroid 1143 Odysseus Closest Approach To Earth (4.693 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (1988), Phobos 2 Launch (Soviet Mars Orbiter)
Jul  8th Forum for New Leaders in Space Science, Pasadena, California
Jul  Conference: Pluto After New Horizons, Laurel, Maryland
Jul 13 - [Jul 09] Partial Solar Eclipse
Jul 13 - Asteroid 3768 Monroe Closest Approach To Earth (1.953 AU)
Jul 13 - Dwarf Planet Pluto At Opposition ( AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Researchers find organic material in the Antennae Galaxies
Food for Thought
Researchers find organic material in the Antennae Galaxies

10. Hubble Captures Cluster of Aging Stars
Space Image of the Week
Hubble Captures Cluster of Aging Stars