Space News Update - November 7, In the News Story 1: Story 1: Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown Story 2: Story 2: ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis Story 3: Story 3: NASA Rocket Experiment Finds the Universe Brighter Than We Thought Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown

ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis

NASA Rocket Experiment Finds the Universe Brighter Than We Thought

The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, November 7 The Moon, just past full, rises in the east at dusk. Once it climbs high, look for orange Aldebaran to its lower left and the Pleiades to its upper left.Catch Mercury in Saturday's dawn, as shown here. Saturday, November 8 The waning gibbous Moon rises around the end of evening twilight. Look for Aldebaran not very far to its upper left. Higher above Aldebaran are the Pleiades. Sunday, November 9 By mid-evening the waning Moon is up in the east. Look to its lower left for orange Betelgeuse, the left corner of rising Orion. Higher to the Moon's upper right is orange Aldebaran. Even farther to the Moon's upper left shines Capella. The Moon itself is at the very dim top of Orion's Club. Monday, November 10 By 8 p.m. now, Great Square of Pegasus stands in its level position very high toward the south. Its right side points far down toward Fomalhaut. Its left side points less far down more or less toward Beta Ceti. If you have an open view to a dark south horizon, and if you're no farther north than roughly New York or Denver, picture an equilateral triangle with Fomalhaut and Beta Ceti forming its top two corners. Near where the third corner would be is Alpha Phoenicis, or Ankaa, in Phoenix. It's magnitude 2.4, not very bright but the brightest thing in the area. Have you ever seen a star of Phoenix before?

ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information ISS For Denver: DateVisible Max HeightAppearsDisappears Sat Nov 8, 5:51 AM3 min38°10 above SSW37 above ESE Sun Nov 9, 5:03 AM3 min21°11 above S21 above SE Mon Nov 10, 4:15 AM1 min11°11 above SE11 above ESE Mon Nov 10, 5:49 AM6 min69°10 above WSW11 above NE

NASA-TV Highlights Friday, November 7 12 p.m., Video File of the ISS Expedition 42/43 Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia and Ceremonial Visit to Red Square in Moscow (Also included in the normal Video File Feed) (all channels) Sunday, November 9 3:45 p.m., ISS Expedition 41 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (includes replay of Nov. 8 Change of Command Ceremony in which Suraev hands over ISS command to Wilmore; hatch closure scheduled at 4 p.m. ET) (all channels) 7:15 p.m., ISS Expedition 41/Soyuz TMA-13M Undocking Coverage (Undocking scheduled at 7:30 p.m. ET) (all channels) 9:45 p.m., ISS Expedition 41/Soyuz TMA-13M Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Deorbit burn scheduled at 10:05 p.m. ET; landing near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan scheduled at 10:58 p.m. ET) (all channels) Monday, November 10 1 a.m., Video File of the ISS Expedition 41/Soyuz TMA-13M Landing and Post-Landing Activities (all channels) 12 p.m., Video File of the ISS Expedition 41/Soyuz TMA-13M Landing and Post-Landing Activities; scheduled to include post-landing interviews with Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst (all channels) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA websiteNASA website (all times Eastern Daylight Time)

Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 UT56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)Asteroid 2014 UT56Near-Earth Flyby Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 TJ33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)Asteroid 2014 TJ33Near-Earth Flyby Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 UV115 Near-Eart h Flyby (0.056 AU)Asteroid 2014 UV115 Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 US56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)Asteroid 2014 US56Near-Earth Flyby Nov 07 - Asteroid 4148 McCartney Closest Approach To Earth (1.414 AU)Asteroid 4148 McCartney Nov 07 - Asteroid Haiku Closest Approach To Earth (1.762 AU)Asteroid Haiku Nov 07 - Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Closest Approach To Earth (1.984 AU)Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Nov 08 - Comet P/2010 H2 (Vales) At Opposition (3.451 AU)Comet P/2010 H2 (Vales)At Opposition Nov 08 - Comet 105P/Singer Brewster At Opposition (3.806 AU)Comet 105P/Singer BrewsterAt Opposition Nov 08 - Asteroid 2014 UT33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)Asteroid 2014 UT33Near-Earth Flyby Nov 08 - Asteroid 1756 Giacobini Closest Approach To Earth (0.998 AU)Asteroid 1756 Giacobini Nov 08 - Asteroid Johnhopkins Closest Approach To Earth (1.272 AU)Asteroid Johnhopkins Nov 08 - Asteroid Davidbaltimore Closest Approach To Earth (1.792 AU)Asteroid Davidbaltimore Nov th Anniversary (2004), Orlando Meteorite Fall in FloridaOrlando Meteorite Fall in Florida Nov th Anniversary (1984), STS-51-A Launch (Space Shuttle Discovery)STS-51-A Launch Nov 08 - Johannes Rydberg's 160th Birthday (1854)Johannes Rydberg's Nov 09 - [Nov 02] Soyuz TMA-13M Return To Earth (International Space Station)Soyuz TMA-13M Return To Earth Nov 09 - [Nov 02] Asteroid 2014 UD192 Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)Asteroid 2014 UD192 Nov 09 - Asteroid 2014 UV57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)Asteroid 2014 UV57Near-Earth Flyby Nov 09 - Asteroid Georgeclooney Closest Approach To Earth (1.202 AU)Asteroid Georgeclooney Nov 09 - Asteroid 477 Italia Closest Approach To Earth (1.278 AU)Asteroid 477 Italia Nov 09 - Asteroid Lima Closest Approach To Earth (1.621 AU)Asteroid Lima Nov 09 - Asteroid 1213 Algeria Closest Approach To Earth (1.804 AU)Asteroid 1213 Algeria Nov 09 - Carl Sagan's 80th Birthday (1934)Carl Sagan's Nov 10 - TMA-13M Return to Earth (International Space Station)TMA-13M Return to Earth Nov 10 - Comet 80P/Peters-Hartley Perihelion (1.613 AU)Comet 80P/Peters-HartleyPerihelion Nov 10 - Asteroid 2014 UQ114 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)Asteroid 2014 UQ114 Nov 10 - Asteroid Faraday Closest Approach To Earth (1.080 AU)Asteroid Faraday

Food for Thought Scaled 3-D Rendering of the Solar System is Mind-Blowing

Space Image of the Week Moon and Earth from Chang'e 5-T1 Image Credit: Chinese National Space Administration, XinhuanetChinese National Space AdministrationXinhuanet