space news update - november 25, 2014 - in the news story 1: nasa's swift mission probes an...
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Space News Update- November 25, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: NASA's Swift Mission Probes an Exotic Object: ‘Kicked’ Black Hole or Mega Star?
Story 2:
The Party’s Over for These Youthful Compact Galaxies
Story 3: Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA’s Dawn Mission Published
Departments
The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
Space CalendarNASA-TV Highlights
Food for ThoughtSpace Image of the Week
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The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
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NASA's Swift Mission Probes an Exotic Object: ‘Kicked’ Black Hole
or Mega Star?
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The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
The Party’s Over for These Youthful Compact Galaxies
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The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA’s Dawn Mission Published
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The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
The Night Sky
Sky & Telescope
Tuesday, November 25
• Look for Mars left of the crescent Moon in twilight, as shown to the right.
• Algol is at minimum light for a couple hours centered on 8:39 p.m. EST.
Wednesday, November 26
• The Moon now shines near Alpha and Beta Capricorni at nightfall, as shown above (depending on your location). Both Alpha and Beta Cap are wide double stars for binoculars. Alpha is easy to resolve; Beta is somewhat less so with its narrower separation and greater brightness difference.
• It's still Summer Triangle season. The Triangle's brightest star is Vega, well up in the west-northwest after dinnertime. The brightest star above Vega is Deneb. The Triangle's third star, Altair, is farther to Vega's left.
Thursday, November 27
• Whenever Fomalhaut is "southing" (crossing the meridian due south, which it does around 6 or 7 p.m. this week), you know that the first stars of Orion are just about to rise in the east, and the Pointers of the Big Dipper stand directly below Polaris (if you're in the world's mid-northern latitudes).
Friday, November 28
• First-quarter Moon (exactly so at 5:06 a.m. Saturday morning EST). Look for Fomalhaut far to its lower left, and Enif, the nose of Pegasus, almost as far to the Moon's upper right.
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ISS Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
ISS For Denver:
Date Visible Max Height Appears Disappears
Wed Nov 26, 5:35 AM 3 min 61° 28 above NW 34 above ESE
Thu Nov 27, 4:48 AM < 1 min 28° 28 above ENE 21 above E
Thu Nov 27, 6:21 AM 5 min 24° 11 above W 11 above S
Fri Nov 28, 5:33 AM 3 min 45° 41 above WSW 11 above SSE
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NASA-TV Highlights
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASAMAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASAMAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASA
Tuesday, November 25
9:40 a.m. - ISS Expedition 42 In-Flight Interviews with WBAL-TV, Baltimore and WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN with Station Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA (all channels)
Tuesday, December 2
7:45 a.m. - ISS Expedition 42 In-Flight Event for ESA and Italian Media with Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti (interpretation included) (all channels)
Wednesday, December 3
10 a.m. - Space Station Live (all channels)channels)Wednesday, December 310 a.m. - Space Station Live (all channels)
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
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Space Calendar
JPL Space Calendar
Nov 25 - Comet 300P/Catalina Closest Approach To Earth (1.462 AU)
Nov 25 - Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro At Opposition (2.447 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 4970 Druyan Closest Approach To Earth (1.071 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.173 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.377 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (1.661 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 9499 Excalibur Closest Approach To Earth (1.949 AU)
Nov 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 145453 (2005 RR43) At Opposition (38.255 AU)
Nov 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 386723 (2009 YE7) At Opposition (49.830 AU)
Nov 26 - Mercury Passes 1.7 Degrees From Saturn
Nov 26 - Comet C/2014 L5 (Lemmon) Perihelion (6.204 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 2014 WY119 Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 2014 VG10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (1.787 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.900 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (1.976 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 8250 Cornell Closest Approach To Earth (2.302 AU)
Nov 26 - Auguste Charlois' 150th Birthday (1864)
Nov 27 - Astra 2G Proton-M Briz-M Launch
Nov 27 - Moon Occults Asteroid 433 Eros
Nov 27 - Asteroid 2014 WR6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 2014 WA5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 2014 TX57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
Nov 28 -50th Anniversary (1964), Mariner 4 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
Nov 28 - Comet 108P/Ciffreo Closest Approach To Earth (0.793 AU)
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Food for ThoughtStudy Investigates How Men and Women Adapt
Differently to Spaceflight
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the ScaleNew Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
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NASA's SDO Shows Moon Transiting the Sun
Credit: NASA/SDO