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Space News Update - June 8, 2012 -

Space News Update - June 8, 2012 -. In the News Story 1: NASA’s New Spy Scope Story 2: Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously Story 3: Pegasus rocket sets sail to launch NASA telescope Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar

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Space News Update - June 8, 2012 -

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  1. Space News Update - June 8, 2012 - In the News Story 1:NASA’s New Spy Scope Story 2:Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously Story 3:Pegasus rocket sets sail to launch NASA telescope Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. NASA’s New Spy Scope A NASA engineer examines the first six flight-ready JWST primary mirror segments. The JWST project's success might determine the course NASA takes in coming years. NASA / MSFC / David Higginbotham

  3. Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

  4. Pegasus rocket sets sail to launch NASA telescope

  5. The Night Sky Friday, June 8· With June well under way, the Big Dipper has swung around to hang down by its handle high in the northwest during evening. The middle star of its handle is Mizar, with little Alcor right next to it. On which side of Mizar should you look for Alcor? As always, on the side toward bright Vega, which is now shining in the east-northeast. Saturday, June 9· Binocular observers are often told to recognize a globular cluster as "a fuzzy star." How fuzzy? You can make the comparison very directly between the globular cluster M5 and the star 5 Serpentis just southeast of it. The star is magnitude 5.1; the cluster is 5.7 in total. See Gary Seronik's Binocular Highlight finder chart and article in the June Sky & Telescope, page 44. 

  6. The Night Sky Sunday, June 10· After nightfall, Vega is the brightest star shining on the eastern side of the sky. Deneb is the brightest to its lower left. Look for Altair farther to Vega's lower right, still rather low. These three form the big Summer Triangle. · This season there's another, temporary "summer triangle" in the southwest: bright Arcturus high on top, the Saturn-Spica pair below it, and Mars off to the pair's right or lower right. · Last quarter Moon tonight (exact at 6:41 a.m. Monday morning EDT). The Moon, half-lit, rises in Aquarius in the middle of the night. By that time the Summer Triangle is very high in the east, high above it. Monday, June 11· The two brightest stars of late spring and summer are Arcturus, now almost overhead toward the south or southwest after dark, and Vega, shining partway up the eastern sky. Arcturus is an orange giant 37 light-years away. Vega is a hot, white main-sequence star 25 light-years distant.

  7. ISS Sighting Opportunities For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  8. ISS Sighting Opportunities For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  9. NASA-TV Highlights No Special Programming. Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website.

  10. Space Calendar Jun 08 - Asteroid 2912 Lapalma Closest Approach To Earth (1.246 AU) Jun 08 - Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (1.909 AU) Jun 08 - Asteroid 4115 Peternorton Closest Approach To Earth (2.049 AU) Jun 09 - Asteroid 2012 JU11Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU) Jun 09 - Asteroid 9879 Mammuthus Closest Approach To Earth (1.236 AU) Jun 09 - Asteroid 1584 Fuji Closest Approach To Earth (1.645 AU) Jun 09 - Asteroid 67085 Oppenheimer Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU) Jun 09 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.957 AU) Jun 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 IxionAt Opposition (39.884 AU) Jun 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #326 (OTM-326) Jun 10 - Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU) Jun 10 - Asteroid 9766 Bradbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.601 AU) Jun 10 - Asteroid 7645 Pons Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU) Jun 11 - Comet 138P/Shoemaker-LevyPerihelion (1.701 AU) Jun 11 - Asteroid 7470 Jabberwock Closest Approach To Earth (1.160 AU) Jun 11 - Asteroid 7434 Osaka Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU) Jun 11 - Asteroid 128 Nemesis Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU) Jun 11 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU) Jun 11 - Marie Paul Fabry's 145th Birthday (1867) JPL Space Calendar

  11. Food for Thought What Is Cosmology? Definition & History

  12. Space Image of the Week Credit: Dave Martinez

  13. Space Image of the Week Credit: Craig Fisher

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