Transcript NASA`s IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun`s Mysterious

Space News Update
- July 26, 2013 In the News
Story 1:
NASA's IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere
Story 2:
NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in the Heart of Earth’s Radiation Belts
Story 3:
Hubble Space Telescope Finds New Neptune Moon
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
NASA's IRIS Telescope Offers First
Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere
NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Particle
Accelerator in the Heart of Earth’s Radiation Belts
Hubble Space Telescope Finds New Neptune
Moon
The Night Sky
Friday, July 26
· The Delta Aquariid meteor shower should be in its broad
maximum all week. This and other weak, long-lasting July showers
with radiants in the southern sky increase the chance that any
meteor you see will be flying out of the south. See article.
Saturday, July 27
· With the Moon now gone from the evening sky, try exploring
through the nest of galaxies over the back of Draco, the Dragon,
using Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders article and charts in the July
Sky & Telescope, page 56. The brightest of them are 10th
magnitude.
Sunday, July 28
· Starry Scorpius is sometimes called "the Orion of Summer" for its
brightness and its prominent red supergiant (Antares in the case of
Scorpius, Betelgeuse for Orion). But Scorpius is a lot lower in the
sky for those of us at mid-northern latitudes. This means it has only
one really good evening month: July. Catch Scorpius due south just
after dark now, before it starts to tilt lower toward the southwest.
Monday, July 29
· Last-quarter Moon (exact at 1:43 p.m. EDT). The Moon rises
around midnight tonight, shining below the stars of Aries. As it climbs
higher through the morning hours, look well to its lower left for the
Pleiades.
Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
LOCAL DATE/TIME
VISIBLE
(MIN)
MAX HEIGHT
(DEG)
APPEARS
(DEG)
DISAPPEARS
(DEG)
Sat Jul 27, 2:19 AM
< 1 min
17°
17 above NNE
17 above NNE
Sat Jul 27, 3:53 AM
2 min
11°
10 above NNW
11 above N
Sat Jul 27, 5:31 AM
< 1 min
11°
10 above NNW
11 above NNW
Sun Jul 28, 3:05 AM
2 min
13°
12 above NW
12 above N
Sun Jul 28, 4:42 AM
1 min
11°
10 above NNW
11 above N
Mon Jul 29, 2:18 AM
< 1 min
15°
15 above N
15 above N
Mon Jul 29, 3:54 AM
1 min
11°
10 above NNW
10 above N
Mon Jul 29, 5:30 AM
2 min
19°
10 above NNW
19 above NNE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
July 27, Saturday
4:30 p.m. - ISS Progress 52 Launch Coverage (Launch scheduled at 4:45 p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
9:45 p.m. - ISS Progress 52 Docking Coverage (Docking scheduled at 10:26 p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Jul 26 - [Jul 24] Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jul 26 - Comet C/2012 K8 (Lemmon) Closest Approach To Earth (6.264 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 576 Emanuela Occults HIP 94645 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 2006 BL8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 13212 Jayleno Closest Approach To Earth (1.204 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (1.380 AU)
Jul 26 - 50th Anniversary (1963), Syncom 2 Launch, 1st Geosynchronous Satellite
Jul 27 - [Jul 20] Progress M-20M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 52P)
Jul 27 - Comet 191P/McNaught Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
Jul 27 - Comet 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu At Opposition (2.079 AU)
Jul 27 - Asteroid 8209 Toscanelli Closest Approach To Earth (1.288 AU)
Jul 27 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (1.488 AU)
Jul 27 - Asteroid 2521 Heidi Closest Approach To Earth (1.958 AU)
Jul 28 - Comet 125P/Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (1.200 AU)
Jul 28 - Comet 184P/Lovas Perihelion (1.394 AU)
Jul 28 - Comet 233P/La Sagra At Opposition (3.041 AU)
Jul 28 - Comet C/2013 G8 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (4.312 AU)
Jul 28 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults 2UCAC 30447109 (12.1 Magnitude Star)
Jul 28 - Asteroid 4355 Memphis Closest Approach To Earth (1.530 AU)
Jul 28 - 40th Anniversary (1973), Skylab-3 Launch
Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Jul 29 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults PPMX 9823370 (11.3 Magnitude Star)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Closest Approach To Earth (1.692 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU)
Jul 29 - Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.933 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to
Asteroid Call for Ideas
Space Image of the Week
Two Views of Earth