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
- 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
- The Helix Nebula is Hurling Clumps of Gas through Space
- Rare Total Solar Eclipse-Perseid Meteor Shower Double-Header August 12th
- Where to See the August 12th Solar Eclipse Online
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 7 – 16
S&T Night Sky News
- 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
- Where to See the August 12th Solar Eclipse Online
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 7 – 16
- Plan for Next Year's Total Solar Eclipse: August 2, 2027
Universe Today
- The Brightened Night Sky Nobody Actually Wanted
- Hubble Reveals that Star Formation is Slowing Down in the Andromeda Galaxy
- The Tarantula That Lost Its Fire
- Upgraded Sardinia Radio Telescope To Continue Probing Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
- Another First for the JWST: It Detects Three Supermassive Black Holes in the Same Galaxy
NASA Breaking News
- APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
- NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies
- NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow
- Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds
- NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun
- Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field
- APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland
Science Daily
- Neptune’s tiny moons may be the wreckage of shattered ancient worlds
- A massive new cosmic map is revealing black holes, rare stars, and hidden gas
- NASA’s Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish from the surface of Mars
- JWST spots a bizarre “black hole star” 100 billion times brighter than a star
- James Webb captures a cosmic lion sculpted by a dying star
- Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter
- NASA’s moon base is taking shape with 20+ lunar landings planned








