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
- Second Bright Supernova in Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in a Year
- Some Pairs of Stars Weren’t Born That Way
- Are Moons Growing Around Exoplanet PDS 70c?
- Scientists Found a Potential Dark Matter Particle — What Happens Now?
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 11 – 20
- Webb Telescope Discovers Surprising Changes in an Asteroid’s Rings
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 4 – 13
S&T Night Sky News
- Second Bright Supernova in Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in a Year
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 11 – 20
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 4 – 13
- Tuesday's Daytime Jupiter Occultation a Warm-Up for the "Big One"
- 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
NASA Breaking News
- APOD: 2026 September 17 – A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
- Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome
- Passion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab
- NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
- NASA Celebrates Restoration of Guam Station Damaged by Typhoon Mawar
- NASA Watches Earth’s Weight, Finds Center of Mass
- Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau
Science Daily
- NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto
- Venus may have swallowed its own moon
- Scientists “truly astonished” by discovery that challenges Earth’s origin story
- James Webb reveals Chariklo’s mysterious rings are changing faster than expected
- Supermassive black hole winds are 100 times more powerful than scientists thought
- Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works
- NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies








