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, July 10 – 19
- Tianwen 2 Arrives at Quasi-Moon Kamoʻoalewa, Returns Images
- Steamy Nights at the Galactic Equator
- Did a Passing Star Shower Us with Comets?
- Hayabusa 2 Completes Flyby Past Asteroid Torifune
- Meet the Cygnus, the High-Flying Swan
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 3 – 12
Universe Today
- Wally Funk, Aviation Pioneer and Oldest Woman to Travel to Space, Dies at 87
- A Rapidly-Growing Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy Could Provide a Window Into the Early Universe.
- Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion
- Only Binary Stars Can Create Interacting Supernovae
- How 'Star City' Reimagined the Space Race With Soviets as the Stars
NASA Breaking News
- Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards
- NASA Volunteers Help Zooniverse Reach 1 Billion Classifications
- NASA Photographer Captures Images from F-18 Over Washington
- Waxing Gibbous Moon
- Where Venezuela’s Earthquakes Shifted the Ground
- NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station
- NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
Science Daily
- Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab
- Europe just unveiled a new rival to SpaceX’s Starship
- The galaxy’s coldest “stars” may actually be alien megastructures
- This alien planet never has sunrise or sunset. It may support life
- This Mars rover could finally reveal whether life ever existed on Mars
- New AI model reveals how neutron star mergers forge heavy elements
- Quantum sensor breakthrough could reveal dark matter and ancient gravitational waves








