Space News Update

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• Space News Update
• Feb 25, 2011 -

In the News Story 1 Discovery Thunders into
Space to Begin Final Flight Story 2Planet
Formation in Action? Story 3 Monster
Prominence  Departments The Night Sky ISS
Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Food
for Thought Space Image of the Week
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Discovery Thunders into Space to Begin Final
Flight
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Planet Formation in Action?
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Monster Prominence
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The Night Sky
Sunday, February 27 Make a note to look
southeast at dawn Monday morning for Venus
shining lower left of the waning crescent Moon,
as shown above. Monday, February 28 See
Venus in broad daylight this morning and tomorrow
morning using the Moon as your guidepost. And
before sunrise tomorrow morning, the very thin
Moon poses lower left of Venus (as shown above).
Friday, February 25 By about 8 p.m. this week
(depending on where you live in your time zone),
you'll see that the Big Dipper has risen to the
same height in the northeast as Cassiopeia has
descended to in the northwest. Their seasonal
dominance is reversing spring is on the way!
Saturday, February 26 After dinnertime at this
time of year, four big carnivore constellations
stand in a row from northeast to south. They're
all seen in profile with their noses pointed up
and their feet (if any) to the right Ursa Major
the Great Bear in the northeast (with the Big
Dipper as his brightest part), Leo in the east,
Hydra the Sea Serpent in the southeast, and Canis
Major in the south. Early Sunday morning the
asteroid 38 Leda occults an 8.7-magnitude star at
the Virgo-Centaurus border for up to 31 seconds
as seen from a track crossing from southern
Mexico through Texas to Montana. Path map, finder
charts, and other details.
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For Denver No ISS Sighting Opportunities
For Denver No ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS Sighting Opportunities
For Denver
No Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be
found at NASAs Satellite Sighting Information
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
February 24, Thursday March 7, Monday - Full
Time Coverage of STS-133 JSC/KSC (All
Channels)   NASA Resources for tracking
STS-133 NASA's web coverage of STS-133 includes
mission information, a press kit, interactive
features, news conference images, graphics and
videos. Mission coverage, including the latest
NASA Television schedule, is available on the
main space shuttle website at http//www.nasa.gov
/shuttle
Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website
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Food for Thought
That's Hot Engineers to Test Boiling at
Zero-Gravity
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Space Image of the Week
NGC 4449 Close-up of a Small Galaxy
Credit Data - Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA
Processing - Robert Gendler