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 Ryugu Also Contains Life’s Building Blocks
- A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy is Transforming Before Our Eyes
- Molten Sulfurous World Blurs Exoplanet Categories
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- Super-Bright Supernovae Are Magnetar Birth Cries
- The Solar Cycle Leaves Its Fingerprint on the Sun’s Interior
- Asteroid Didymos's Heliocentric Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- 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
NASA Image of the Day
- Lava Flows Down Mayon
- Solving Asteroid Bennu's Mysteries
- Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
- Good Morning, Moon
- Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
- Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat's Eye Nebula
- Celebrating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
Science Daily
- Even JWST can’t see through this planet’s massive haze
- JWST reveals a strange sulfur world unlike any planet we know
- This massive crater could expose the heart of a lost planet
- NASA’s Webb captures a bizarre brain-shaped nebula around a dying star
- Rare supernova from 10 billion years ago may reveal the secret of dark energy
- A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought
- Astronomers just found the source of the brightest fast radio burst ever








