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
- Asteroid Didymos's Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
- Dwarf Galaxy Has "Too Many" Satellites
- Lunar Impact from Asteroid 2024 YR4 Ruled Out
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Rubin Observatory Sends 800,000 Alerts to Astronomers — Per Night
- AI Reveals New Galaxies in James Webb Space Telescope Images
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
S&T Night Sky News
- 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
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 13 – 22
Universe Today
- AI Could Make Alien Contact More Likely for SETI's 'Project Hail Mary'
- The Sun Has a Heartbeat
- Sunday Morning's European Fireball Was Probably Only a Few Meters in Diameter
- The Rubin Observatory's LSST Will Detect Imminent Impactors Before They Crash Into Earth
- New Study Addresses Clotting Risks for Female Astronauts
NASA Breaking News
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4825-4831: Exploring the Borderlands
- A Most Unusual Lake
- About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Project
- Insights into Spallation Mechanisms of Thermal Protection System Materials from Mass Spectrometry and HyMETS Testing
- March 2026 Satellite Puzzler
- Computational Modeling of Failure at the Fabric Weave Level in Reentry Parachute Energy Modulators
- Ice to Fuel: NASA Tests Technology for Refueling Landers
Science Daily
- Scientists may have discovered a brand-new mineral on Mars
- Cosmic voids look empty but they may be tearing the universe apart
- NASA’s DART asteroid smash shows we could deflect a future threat
- Particles may not follow Einstein’s paths after all
- Astronomers create the largest 3D map of the early universe revealing hidden galaxies
- NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other
- Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way








