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
- Gamma-Ray Bursts Size Up the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 17 – 26
- First Atmosphere Detected on a Terrestrial World
- Famous System Has a Third Planet: Beta Pictoris d
- Observers Beware: Reflect Orbital’s Space Mirrors Approved for Launch
- "Rogue" Neptunes Are Detached But Not Alone
- Euclid Telescope Finds Quasars Within 700 Million Years of the Big Bang
Universe Today
- Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs
- Astronomers Determine that Exoplanets Around Barnard's Star are Extremely Uninhabitable
- Meet Our Newest Stellar Neighbours That Hid in the Glare of Other Stars
- Finding Venus Zone Planets with PLATO Will Show Us How Habitable Planets Evolve
- A Star Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Tests the Limits of Relativity
NASA Breaking News
- A New Compact Instrument Enables High-Fidelity Measurements of Energetic Particles on CubeSats
- Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged
- NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station
- NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration
- New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights
- From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
- Our First View of the Surface of Mars
Science Daily
- A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
- A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
- NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
- Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought
- Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet
- NASA captured the Black Sea turning brilliant turquoise from space








