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
- Chile’s Light-Pollution Standard Takes Full Effect
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 16 – 25
- A Cloud Forms Spontaneously Over a Mountain on Mars — Here’s Why
- Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower
- NASA Initiative to Study the Moon's Environment
- The Sun Has a New Life Expectancy, and It’s a Billion Times Shorter
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 9 – 18
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 16 – 25
- Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 9 – 18
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter Early October 6th
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 25 – October 2
NASA Breaking News
- APOD: 2026 October 18 – Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars
- APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P
- NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director
- Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
- I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen
- NASA’s Hubble Spies Spiral’s Edge
- APOD: 2026 October 16 – Chasing the International Space Station
Science Daily
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%
- NASA’s Webb reveals the wild weather of a mysterious world 20 light-years away
- SpaceX just delivered some very strange cargo to the International Space Station
- James Webb reveals a strange bulge in an alien planet's atmosphere
- Astronomers discover a strange universal rule behind black hole eruptions
- Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the Moon’s two faces
- A planet 320 light-years away confirms what scientists long suspected








