February Meeting Date Change
Our February meeting date has been changed from Feb 6 to Feb 13 to accommodate our speaker’s schedule. The meeting will be held in room A102, Cochise College downtown campus on Friday February 13 at 7 p.m. The speaker is HAC member Michael Borland. Dr. Borland will discuss narrow-band solar imaging.
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
- A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy is Transforming Before Our Eyes
- Molten Sulfurous World Blurs Exoplanet Categories
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- Super-Bright Supernovae Are Magnetar Birth Cries
- The Solar Cycle Leaves Its Fingerprint on the Sun’s Interior
- Asteroid Didymos's Heliocentric Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
- Dwarf Galaxy Has "Too Many" Satellites
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 27 – March 8
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 20 – March 1
- Watch the Young Moon Greet Mercury at Sunset
- Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as "Ice Volcano" Erupts
Universe Today
- The Coming Age of Space Stations
- Are Rogue Exomoons the Newest Frontier in the Search for Habitability?
- Microscopic "Ski-Jumps" Could Shrink Spacecraft LiDAR to the Size of a Microchip
- Is the Universe Defective? Part 3: The Great Vanishing Act
- A 60-Year Old Mystery About the Moon's Magnetosphere Is Finally Solved
NASA Image of the Day
- Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
- Good Morning, Moon
- Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
- Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat's Eye Nebula
- Celebrating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
- Webb Studies Cranium Nebula
- Weekends on the Space Station
NASA Breaking News
- A Bit of Gray on an Emerald Isle
- NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights
- SPARCS CubeSat ‘First Light’ Images
- To Protect Artemis II Astronauts, NASA Experts Keep Eyes on Sun
- Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
- A Combination of Techniques Leads to Improved Friction Stir Welding
- NESC Develops Method for Estimating Risk When Reducing NDE
Science Daily
- A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought
- Astronomers just found the source of the brightest fast radio burst ever
- Scientists discover hidden water beneath Mars that could have supported life
- NASA launches twin spacecraft to solve the mystery of Mars’ lost atmosphere
- NASA’s Curiosity rover investigates strange spiderweb ridges on Mars
- Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars
- A black hole and neutron star just collided in a strange oval orbit








