1. Space News Update - January 25, 2019 - In the News Departments
Story 1:
NASA's New Horizons space probe beams back sharpest image yet of Ultima Thule
Story 2:
One of Our Best Views of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Story 3: Making the Hubble's deepest images even deeper
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The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. NASA's New Horizons space probe beams back sharpest image yet of Ultima Thule
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. One of Our Best Views of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way

4. Making the Hubble's deepest images even deeper

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, January 25
• Right after dark, face east and look very high. The bright star there is Capella, the Goat Star. To the right of it, by a couple of finger-widths at arm's length, is a small, narrow triangle of 3rd and 4th magnitude stars known as "the Kids." They're not exactly eye-grabbing, but they form a never-forgotten asterism (informal star pattern) with Capella.
Saturday, January 26
• Orion is high in the southeast right after dark, and he stands highest due south around 10 p.m. Orion is the brightest of the 88 constellations, but his main pattern is surprisingly small compared to some of his dimmer neighbors. The biggest of these is Eridanus the Euphrates River just to his west, enormous but hard to trace. Dimmer Fornax the Furnace, to Eridanus's lower right, is almost as big as Orion! Even the main pattern of Lepus, the Hare cowering under Orion's feet, isn't much smaller than he is.
Sunday, January 27
• Last-quarter Moon (exact at 4:10 p.m. EST). The Moon rises around 1 a.m. tonight in dim Libra. As it climbs high, its curved edge points lower left to the spot on the horizon where Jupiter will rise around 4 a.m. and Venus about 15 minutes later (depending on your location).
Monday, January 28
• After dark the Great Square of Pegasus is sinking low in the west, tipped onto one corner. Look for it to the right of Mars. Meanwhile
the Big Dipper is creeping up in the north-northeast, tipped up on its handle.
Tuesday, January 29
• In this dark-of-the-Moon period, use binoculars to get acquainted with the little asterisms a few degrees north of the main Hyades V pattern. (Zoom in on the View here.) I call two of these the Jumping Minnow and Dragonfly, imagining warm summer afternoons by a riverbank far separated from these icy winter nights.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Jan 25, 6:16 PM
3 min
37°
28° above WNW
16° above NNE
Sat Jan 26, 7:00 PM
2 min
15°
10° above NW
15° above NNW
Sun Jan 27, 6:09 PM
4 min
20°
14° above WNW
10° above NNE
Mon Jan 28, 6:55 PM
1 min
11°
10° above NNW
11° above N
Tue Jan 29, 6:03 PM
13°
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)
Subject to Change due to Government Shutdown
Thursday, January 31, 1:15 p.m.: Canadian Space Agency PAO event with astronaut David Saint-Jacques from the Destiny Laboratory on the International Space Station with Kids Code Jeunesse in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Jan 25 - Comet C/2010 U3 (Boattini) At Opposition (7.930 AU)
Jan 25 - [Jan 18] Apollo Asteroid 2019 AJ13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
Jan 25 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 AG11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Jan 25 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 AN12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 4037 Ikeya Closest Approach To Earth (1.430 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid Jenniferharris Closest Approach To Earth (1.509 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid Grantstokes Closest Approach To Earth (1.893 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 7028 Tachikawa Closest Approach To Earth (2.064 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 8990 Compassion Closest Approach To Earth (2.079 AU)
Jan 25 - Apollo Asteroid 3671 Dionysus Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
Jan 25 - Plutino (2003 AZ84) At Opposition ( AU)
Jan th Anniversary (2004), Mars Exploration Rover B (Opportunity), Mars Landing
Jan th Anniversary (1994), Clementine Launch (USA Moon Orbiter)
Jan 26 - Comet 98P/Takamizawa At Opposition (3.943 AU)
Jan 26 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 AA10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
Jan 26 - Apollo Asteroid (1994 CC) (2 Moons) Closest Approach To Earth (1.319 AU)
Jan 26 - Asteroid 4444 Escher Closest Approach To Earth (1.653 AU)
Jan 26 - Asteroid 224 Oceana Closest Approach To Earth (1.767 AU)
Jan 26 - Asteroid Lederman Closest Approach To Earth (1.803 AU)
Jan 27 - Comet 223P/Skiff Perihelion (2.431 AU)
Jan 27 - Asteroid 727 Nipponia Closest Approach To Earth (1.513 AU)
Jan 27 - Asteroid Kimclijsters Closest Approach To Earth (2.866 AU)
Jan 27 - Isaac Roberts' 190th Birthday (1829)
Jan 28 - Comet C/2010 U3 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (7.929 AU)
Jan 28 - Comet 1P/Halley At Opposition ( AU)
Jan 28 - Aten Asteroid 2019 AP11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.949 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid 4356 Marathon Closest Approach To Earth (2.212 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (2.340 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (2.666 AU)
Jan 28 - Donald Parker's 80th Birthday (1939)
Jan 28 - Lucien d'Azambuja's 135th Birthday (1884)
Jan 28 - Auguste Piccard's 135th Birthday (1884)
Jan 28 - Jean Felix Piccard's 135th Birthday (1884)
Jan 29 - Comet 360P/WISE At Opposition (3.151 AU)
Jan 29 - Aten Asteroid 2019 AN11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
Jan 29 - Aten Asteroid 2013 CW32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jan 29 - Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (1.037 AU)
Jan 29 - Asteroid 5945 Roachapproach Closest Approach To Earth (1.560 AU)
Jan 29 - Asteroid 5515 Naderi Closest Approach To Earth (1.663 AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon
Food for Thought
We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon

10. Moon Struck Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Space Image of the Week
Moon Struck  Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek