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
- 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
- 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"
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
- CubeSat Instrument Extends Solar Storm Warnings 10x
- Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a City on the Moon
- Tens of Thousands of Fast Radio Bursts Could Help Solve the Greatest Cosmic Mysteries
- Could the Clues to Ancient Alien Civilizations Be Hiding in a Bucket of Moon Dust?
- A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
NASA Breaking News
- APOD: 2026 September 15 – A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
- Webinar 9/23: NASA CSDA Program Update 2026
- New Crops, Health Research Proposals to Help NASA Advance Exploration
- NASA Welcomes Djibouti as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
- NASA Kicks Off Inspiration Tour with Steelers vs. Falcons Game
- Summer Training: Catching Up With NASA’s Astronaut Candidates
- APOD: 2026 September 14 – Where Your Elements Came From
Science Daily
- Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works
- NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
- Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
- Mercury’s surface reveals a surprisingly fiery past
- 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








