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
- 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
- Rare Total Solar Eclipse-Perseid Meteor Shower Double-Header August 12th
NASA Image of the Day
- 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 Astronaut Reid Wiseman at Freedom 250 Grand Prix
- Webb Opens Treasure Chest
- Artemis Mission Patches
NASA Breaking News
- NASA’s Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge
- President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award
- President Trump Signs Executive Order to Create US Space Academy
- Grants
- APOD: 2026 August 28 – The Sky Turns Above Paranal
- The Forested Floodplains of Congaree National Park
Science Daily
- The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why
- NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble
- “I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion
- A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars
- Scientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light
- NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds








