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
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter on October 6th
- October Podcast: Saturn is a “Star”
- Did Venus Swallow Its Moon?
- Rejected: Spain’s Proposal to Build the Thirty Meter Telescope on La Palma
- Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Makes Penultimate Earth Flyby
S&T Night Sky News
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter on October 6th
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 25 – October 2
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 18 – 27
- Join the World in Observing the Moon on September 19th
- Second Bright Supernova in Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in a Year
Universe Today
- Asteroid Bennu Has an Identity Crisis, and Jupiter Might Be to Blame
- NASA's First Selection for a New Class of Mission: The PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope
- NASA's Hubble Marks its 200,000th Orbit by Watching Lensed Supernova
- Exercise Keeps Astronaut Hearts in Fighting Shape for the Journey to Mars
- Mars' North Pole Ice Is Far Cleaner Than Expected
NASA Breaking News
- APOD: 2026 October 4 – Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey
- APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge
- NASA Astronaut Christina Koch to Join NFL Fans in Philadelphia
- Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission
- NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat
- La NASA abre solicitudes para próxima promoción de directores de vuelo
- NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests
Science Daily
- ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter
- Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule
- Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe
- NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye
- The early universe wasn’t nearly as pristine as scientists thought
- A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
- NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds groundwater, lakes, and hot fluids in one place








