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
Universe Today
- Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation
- Scientists Model the True Darkness of Venus’s Mysterious UV Absorber
- Mars's Interior is 400°C Hotter Under Southern Hemisphere
- Astronomers Catch Black Hole Spewing Matter After Feeding
- Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe's Mysterious Arrow of Time
NASA Image of the Day
- Artemis III RS-25 Engine Processing: #3 Lift
- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
- 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
NASA Breaking News
- What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
- Historic Engines Take Their Place on Artemis III
- APOD: 2026 September 1 – A Plane Lunar Eclipse
- Ice Island Survives Run-In With Joe Island
- NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
- September 2026 Satellite Puzzler
- NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
Science Daily
- NASA’s Swift telescope is back, but time is running out
- NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets
- Rocky planets may have formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang
- This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole
- Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars
- The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why








