1. Space News Update - January 22, 2019 - In the News Departments
Story 1:
New Study Finds Evidence of Changing Seasons, Rain on Titan’s North Pole
Story 2:
A Star’s Death Sheds Light on Black Hole’s Spin
Story 3: Solar Flares: From Emergence to Eruption: Comprehensive model captures entire life cycle
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. New Study Finds Evidence of Changing Seasons, Rain on Titan’s North Pole
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. A Star’s Death Sheds Light on Black Hole’s Spin

4. Solar Flares: From Emergence to Eruption
Comprehensive model captures entire life cycle

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, January 22
• This is the time of year when the Northern Cross plants itself upright on the northwest horizon just after dark. Its top star is 1st-magnitude Deneb.
Wednesday, January 23
• The Gemini twins lie on their sides on winter evenings, left of Orion. Their head stars, Castor and Pollux, are farthest from Orion, one over the other. (Castor is on top.) The Castor figure's feet are just left of the top of Orion's dim Club.
Thursday, January 24
• With the waning gibbous Moon now gone from the early evening sky, is your sky dark enough for you to see the winter Milky Way? After dinnertime it runs vertically and across the zenith: from bright Canis Major low in the southeast, up between Orion and Gemini, through Auriga and Perseus almost straight overhead, and down through Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Cygnus (including the Northern Cross) to the northwest horizon.
And take advantage of these dark evenings to explore telescopic sights high overhead with Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders column, "Meridian Observing," in the January Sky & Telescope, page 54.
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." Though they're not exactly eye-grabbing, they form a never-forgotten asterism with Capella.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Jan 22, 5:36 PM
4 min
17°
10° above S
10° above E
Tue Jan 22, 7:12 PM
1 min
37°
21° above W
37° above WNW
Wed Jan 23, 6:21 PM
3 min
89°
29° above SW
30° above NE
Thu Jan 24, 5:32 PM
42°
42° above ESE
10° above ENE
Thu Jan 24, 7:06 PM
24°
17° above WNW
24° above NNW
Fri Jan 25, 6:15 PM
28° above WNW
16° above NNE
Sat Jan 26, 7:00 PM
2 min
15°
10° above NW
15° above NNW
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
Tuesday, January 22
11:35 a.m.: Canadian Space Agency PAO event with astronaut David Saint- Jacques from the Destiny Laboratory on the International Space Station, for an activity associated with Earth observation studies involving former astronaut Roberta Bondar.
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 22 - Venus Passes 2.4 Degrees From Jupiter
Jan 22 - Comet 239P/LINEAR At Opposition (0.696 AU)
Jan 22 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 AX8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 449 Hamburga Closest Approach To Earth (1.135 AU)
Jan 22 - Amor Asteroid 4055 Magellan Closest Approach To Earth (1.436 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid Dennisritchie Closest Approach To Earth (1.595 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 9781 Jubjubbird Closest Approach To Earth (1.918 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid Brucebills Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
Jan 22 - Lecture: The Tools of The Apollo, London, United Kingdom
Jan 23 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 AS11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
Jan 23 - Amor Asteroid 2019 AH13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
Jan 23 - Atira Asteroid 1998 DK36 Closest Approach To Earth (1.249 AU)
Jan 23 - Asteroid Loving Closest Approach To Earth (1.909 AU)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 469 Argentina Closest Approach To Earth (1.938 AU)
Jan 24 - Microsat-R/ Kalamsat PSLV Launch
Jan 24 - Amor Asteroid 2015 BG4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
Jan 24 - Lecture: Surprises in the Saturn System, Houston, Texas
Jan 25 - WGS-10 Delta 4 Launch
JPL Space Calendar

9. Food for Thought
Steam-Powered Spacecraft Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Forever, Refueling Itself in Space

10. Space Image of the Week
Juno’s Latest Flyby of Jupiter Captures Two Massive Storms
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran