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, June 5 – 14
- Auroras May Dance Over the U.S. Thursday Night, June 4-5
- Venus, Jupiter Converge in Stunning June 9th Dusk Conjunction
- Mars MAVEN Mission Lost; NASA Says Farewell
- June Podcast: Dance of the Planets
- NASA Brings Its Lunar Ambitions into Focus with Moon Base Missions
- Evidence of Water Plumes from Jupiter's Moon Europa Vanishes
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 5 – 14
- Auroras May Dance Over the U.S. Thursday Night, June 4-5
- Venus, Jupiter Converge in Stunning June 9th Dusk Conjunction
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 29 – June 7
- Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 31
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 15 – 24
Universe Today
- New Cloud-Detecting Method Will Help Astronomers Characterize Exoplanets
- Even Without A Magnetosphere, Mars Can Still Deflect Some Solar Wind
- The Unexpected Brightness 'Gap' in an Ancient Globular Cluster
- Cosmic Tryst: Venus Meets Jupiter at Dusk
- A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part IX: What Have We Found?
NASA Breaking News
- Fighting Fire With Fire
- NASA Hosts 2026 Review on Advanced Composite Manufacturing
- NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll
- Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter
- A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4908-4912: Goodbye Campo Marte, It’s Been Fun!
- NASA Finds New Way Earth May Have Received Elements Needed for Life
Science Daily
- NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
- Venus will disappear behind the Moon in a rare June sky event
- A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals
- Hubble captures M88 on a perilous journey that could change it forever
- NASA’s Roman telescope could reveal 100,000 hidden worlds
- Astronomers finally solve Saturn’s decades-long spin mystery
- Rogue planet moons could harbor alien life for billions of years








