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, September 11 – 20
- Webb Telescope Discovers Surprising Changes in an Asteroid’s Rings
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 4 – 13
- Gaps in Stellar Streams May be Common — and Not a Sign of Dark Matter
- Tuesday's Daytime Jupiter Occultation a Warm-Up for the "Big One"
- I Spy the Moon
- September Podcast: Vega & Its Vicinity
S&T Night Sky News
- 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
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 14 – 23
Universe Today
- How Big Can The Universe's First Starbursts Get?
- What's Carving Active Gullies on Mars? It's Not Water
- NASA's Next Great Observatory Could Spot Oceans on Distant Worlds
- eROSITA's Second Data Release Catalog Delivering the Most Comprehensive High-Energy Census of the Cosmos to Date
- Unexplained Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Center Could be from Self-Annihilating Dark Matter
NASA Breaking News
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return
- NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords
- APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
- Monterrey Amid Mountains
- NASA Invites Media to Djibouti Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
- NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
- NASA’s Life-Saving Technology Where Cell Signals Can’t Go
Science Daily
- The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
- Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol
- Dark energy debunked? Cosmic acceleration may be an illusion
- Astronomers detect ancient hydrogen signal that could help map the Universe
- Dying radio galaxies fade faster than scientists expected
- Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system








