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Space News Update Feb 4, 2011 -

Space News Update Feb 4, 2011 -. In the News Story 1: NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System Story 2: Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Story 3: Active Changes Occuring in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere Departments The Night Sky

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Space News Update Feb 4, 2011 -

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  1. Space News Update • Feb 4, 2011 - In the News Story 1: NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System Story 2:Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Story 3: Active Changes Occuring in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System

  3. Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds

  4. Active Changes Occuring in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere

  5. The Night Sky Friday, February 4 · Sirius transits the meridian of the sky (i.e. is due south) around 9 or 10 p.m. this week, depending on where you live east or west in your time zone. Sirius is the brightest star in all the sky (after the Sun). The second brightest is far-southern Canopus. By coincidence, Canopus and Sirius transit at nearly the same time. If you live at least as far south as Atlanta, Phoenix, or Los Angeles, see if you can spot Canopus just above the south point on your horizon when Sirius is approaching the meridian. (Canopus transits 20 minutes before Sirius.) · Jupiter's Great Red Spot crosses Jupiter's central meridian around 7:12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. · A dawn challenge! Just before the first light of dawn Saturday morning for your location, get your telescope or binoculars on Venus low in the southeast. Look 3½° south (lower right) of it for the Lagoon Nebula, M8 — a cold winter preview of a summer object. Good luck! Also nearby is the asteroid Vesta, magnitude 7.8. See the article and chart in the February Sky & Telescope, page 57.

  6. The Night Sky Saturday, February 5 · Jupiter and the waxing crescent Moon inhabit the western sky during twilight and early evening tonight and for the next few nights, as shown above. Sunday, February 6 · Jupiter and the crescent Moon are lined up in the west at dusk, as shown above. Monday, February 7 · The Moon is over Jupiter this evening. Look to their right for the Great Square of Pegasus, tipped onto one corner. (Two of its stars show in the scene above.)

  7. For Denver: No ISS Sighting Opportunities For Denver: No ISS Sighting Opportunities ISS Sighting Opportunities For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  8. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) February 9, Wednesday10:10 a.m. - ISS Expedition 26 In-Flight Interviews with NPR’s “All Things Considered” and KHOU-TV, Houston - JSC (Public and Media Channels) Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website

  9. Food for Thought NASA weighs plan to keep space shuttle until 2017

  10. Space Image of the Week Checkmate… Capturing the “Steed of Dust” Horsehead Nebula by Ken Crawford

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