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 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
- Star Feels Spin of Milky Way’s Black Hole
- NASA Launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
S&T Night Sky News
- 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
- Did You See the Solar Eclipse? Here’s What We Saw, from Around the World
Universe Today
- The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe
- The 20th Data Release (DR 20) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is Here!
- Pulsar Timing Arrays Could Look for Evidence of Dark Matter Stars
- New Study Expands Search for "Dark Photons," a Leading Dark Matter Candidate
- Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
NASA Breaking News
- NASA Ames Fire Department Aircraft Firefighting Training
- NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community
- Lunar Occultation of Venus
- APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na Uhane Mahoe Huki Pu i ke Ola
- A Trio of Tropical Cyclones in the Pacific
- NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4988-4994: More New Tricks for an Old Dog
Science Daily
- Dying radio galaxies fade faster than scientists expected
- Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
- NASA scientists discover a giant 10-sided pattern on Saturn
- The universe has plenty of hydrogen. So why is star formation collapsing?
- September brings a dazzling Venus and a glowing Harvest Moon
- Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed
- Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago








