Why Do Astronomy Outreach?
Zane Landers presented a talk at the January 2023 HAC meeting about why we should endeavor to support and participate in astronomy outreach events. The talk has been recorded and is available on YouTube.
Evening Stargazing: Tonight’s Sky and What’s Up?
The NASA Museum Alliance has provided some star gazing videos that may be of interest to our members. These are short videos that cover what is in the night sky for the current month.
S&T Astronomy News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 21 – 30
- Next Up! A Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse on Aug. 27–28
- Spying on a Split Comet
- California Teen Wins 2026 National Young Astronomer Award
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 14 – 23
- Did You See the Solar Eclipse? Here’s What We Saw, from Around the World
- A Perfectly Timed Perseid Meteor Shower
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 21 – 30
- Next Up! A Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse on Aug. 27–28
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 14 – 23
- Did You See the Solar Eclipse? Here’s What We Saw, from Around the World
- A Perfectly Timed Perseid Meteor Shower
- Rare Total Solar Eclipse-Perseid Meteor Shower Double-Header August 12th
- Where to See the August 12th Solar Eclipse Online
Universe Today
- NASA Highlights Next-Gen Cargo Landers Paving the Way for a Moon Base
- White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
- Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars's Crust
- The CosmoCube Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon
- Strange Signals Called Long-period Radio Transits Come From Cataclysmic Variables
NASA Breaking News
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
- APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
- NASA Shares Views of August Solar Eclipse from Ground, Air, Space
- TB 26-04 Updates and Modernization of NASA’s Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) Code
- Webb Opens Treasure Chest
- NASA’s Artemis II Crew Set to Receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- Europe’s Scorching Summer
Science Daily
- Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive
- JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought
- A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater
- This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why
- Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty
- Einstein’s biggest “mistake” came back — and changed cosmology forever
- Webb’s mysterious little red dots may be hiding entire galaxies








