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 Black Hole’s Puzzling X-Ray Bursts
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 8 – 17
- SpaceX Booster Will Hit the Moon This August
- Astronomers Spot Possible Missing Link to Webb’s Little Red Dots
- Nearby Super-Earth Has No Atmosphere and a Dark, Moon-like Surface
- Questar Ceases Operations
- Meet the Constellations: Leo, the Lion
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 8 – 17
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 1 – 9
- Satellite or Meteor? Dissecting Light Trails in Your Sky Photos
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 24 – May 3
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 17 – 26
- See the Moon Hide Regulus, the Stellar Heart of the Lion
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 10 – 19
NASA Breaking News
- Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions
- NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition
- Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
- Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
- NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir
- NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview
- NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach
Science Daily
- NASA’s Psyche probe is about to slingshot around Mars at 12,000 mph
- NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally pulled a rock out of Mars
- Scientists say Dante’s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains strange water never seen in our solar system
- The Universe’s biggest black holes may be forged in violent mergers
- Webb space telescope finds a giant galaxy that doesn’t spin
- This strange planet pair shouldn’t exist, but it does








