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
- Exoplanet or Exomoon? New Contender Elicits Skepticism
- Gamma-Ray Bursts Size Up the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 17 – 26
- First Atmosphere Detected on a Terrestrial World
- Famous System Has a Third Planet: Beta Pictoris d
- Observers Beware: Reflect Orbital’s Space Mirrors Approved for Launch
- "Rogue" Neptunes Are Detached But Not Alone
NASA Breaking News
- Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno
- NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface
- NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io
- NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discovery
- A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America
- NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
- NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Science Daily
- China’s Chang’e-6 reveals why solar wind hits the Moon’s two sides differently
- Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone
- A hidden “switch-off” signal could predict solar storms seven years early
- Dying Sun-like stars may kick themselves through space
- New quantum gravity theory links entropy, dark energy, and life
- A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
- A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago








