Space News Update - May 27, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Japanese Craft Launched with Night-Vision Mapping Radar Story 2: Rosetta’s Target Comet is Becoming Active Story 3: NASA Mars Weather Camera Helps Find New Crater on Red Planet Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
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Space News Update- May 27, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: Japanese Craft Launched with Night-Vision Mapping Radar
Story 2:Rosetta’s Target Comet is Becoming Active
Story 3: NASA Mars Weather Camera Helps Find New Crater on Red Planet
DepartmentsThe Night Sky
ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar
NASA-TV HighlightsFood for Thought
Space Image of the Week
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
Japanese Craft Launched with Night-Vision Mapping Radar
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
Rosetta’s Target Comet is Becoming Active
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
NASA Mars Weather Camera Helps Find New Crater on Red Planet
Tuesday, May 27 Comet 209P/LINEAR, the source of last Saturday
morning's meteors, is closest to Earth for the next five days. It was only 13th magnitude as of May 22nd. It's south of Leo, crossing Sextans and Crater.
Watch the crescent Moon pass between Jupiter and Procyon as it waxes from evening to evening.
Wednesday, May 28 What is the oldest thing you have ever seen? The
Earth, Sun, Moon, and planets are 4.6 billion years old. The age record for people who just glance at the sky might be Arcturus, about 7 billion years old. But with a pair of binoculars, you can pick up the 7.2-magnitude star HD 140283 in Libra. This star is in competition for the title of the oldest known, with an age recently measured at about 13 billion years. That means it formed just several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Spot it using the finder chart with Gary Seronik's Binocular Highlight column in the June Sky & Telescope, page 45. This is almost certainly the oldest thing you will ever see.
New Moon today (exact at 2:40 p.m. EDT). Thursday, May 29 As twilight turns to darkness, Mars shines brightly fire-
colored in the south. Look below it for the four-star pattern of Corvus, the Crow.
Friday, May 30 Look very low in the west-northwest in twilight for the
hairline crescent Moon with Mercury to its right. They're far to the lower right of bright Jupiter, as shown here. Binoculars will help.
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASAMAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASAMAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASA
May 27, Tuesday8 a.m. - Replay of Video File of the ISS Expedition 40/41 Crew Activities, Soyuz TMA-13M Spacecraft Mating and Rollout to the Launch Pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan plus Launch Pad Interviews - HQ (All Channels)2 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Event with the CBS Radio Network and ABC Digital News - JSC (All Channels)3 p.m. - Video File of the Russian State Commission Meeting and Final Expedition 40/41 Pre-Launch Crew News Conference in Baikonur, Kazakhstan - JSC via Baikonur, Kazakhstan (All Channels)
May 28, Wednesday3 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40/41 Soyuz TMA-13M Launch Coverage (Launch scheduled at 3:57 p.m. ET; includes video B-roll of the crew’s pre-launch activities at 3:15 p.m. ET) - JSC via Baikonur, Kazakhstan (All Channels)6 p.m. - Video File of ISS Expedition 40/41 Soyuz TMA-13M Pre-Launch, Launch B-Roll and Post-Launch Interviews (All Channels)9 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40/41 Soyuz TMA-13M Docking Coverage (Docking scheduled at 9:48 p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)11 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40/41 Soyuz TMA-13M Hatch Opening and Other Activities (Hatch Opening scheduled at 11:25 p.m. ET) - JSC via Baikonur, Kazakhstan (All Channels)
May 29, Thursday1 a.m. - Video File of ISS Expedition 40/41 Soyuz TMA-13M Docking, Hatch Opening and Other Activities - JSC (All Channels)