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 Night Sky News
- Tuesday's Daytime Jupiter Occultation a Warm-Up for the "Big One"
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 28 – September 6
- Next Up! A Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse on Aug. 27–28
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 21 – 30
- 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
Universe Today
- New Research Shows How Mercury's Crust Formed by Extreme Volcanism
- Simulations Show That Dark Matter Isn't What Gives Stellar Streams Their Kinks
- Scientists Develop Test Setup For New Way To Survive Reentry
- SuperCDMS SNOLAB Starts Its Dark Matter Hunt
- Astronomers Might Use Manganese to Clock the Age of Galaxies
NASA Image of the Day
- August Lunar Eclipse Rises Over Louisiana
- Artemis III RS-25 Engine Processing: #3 Lift
- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
- NASA's Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- Civil Servants Sworn in at NASA Ames
- Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
- Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on Spacewalk
NASA Breaking News
- NASA Revamps Challenge Linking Community College Studies to Aerospace Careers
- NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole
- Rising Over Louisiana
- NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds
- APOD: 2026 September 2 – Solar Eclipses and Culture
- NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
- What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Science Daily
- Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed
- Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago
- NASA’s Swift telescope is back, but time is running out
- NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets
- Rocky planets may have formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang
- This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole








