February Meeting Date Change
Our February meeting date has been changed from Feb 6 to Feb 13 to accommodate our speaker’s schedule. The meeting will be held in room A102, Cochise College downtown campus on Friday February 13 at 7 p.m. The speaker is HAC member Michael Borland. Dr. Borland will discuss narrow-band solar imaging.
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
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly
- Sun-Observing Satellite Uses Artificial Eclipse to Capture the Solar Wind
- Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way
- Galaxies Don’t Die All at Once
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 17 – 26
- What Were the Flashes That Artemis 2 Astronauts Saw?
- See the Moon Hide Regulus, the Stellar Heart of the Lion
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 17 – 26
- See the Moon Hide Regulus, the Stellar Heart of the Lion
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 10 – 19
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 3 – 12
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 27 – April 5
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 20 – 29
- Latest News on the Kreutz Sungrazing Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS
Universe Today
- Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and the Forbidden Gap
- MSL Curiosity Found New Organic Chemicals On Mars, Proof That The Planet Can Preserve Ancient Biosignatures
- Tracking Changes in the Trifid Nebula With the Hubble
- Mars Didn't Have Bathtubs, It Had Shelves
- Stellar Flares May Expand Habitable Zones Around Small Stars
NASA Breaking News
- NASA SBIR/STTR Phase I and II BAA, 2026 Appendix A and B are now live! Offers due May 21, 2026, 5:00PM EDT
- NASA’s 777 Aircraft Returns Home with Science Flights on the Horizon
- NASA Targets Early September for Roman Space Telescope Launch
- NASA Astronaut Anil Menon to Discuss Upcoming Launch, Mission
- Night and (Earth) Day
- Advancing Earth Observation at NASA Since Release of Earthrise Photo
- Belts of Green in the Washington Suburbs
Science Daily
- Scientists stunned as JWST finds ice clouds on a giant alien planet
- Why two-sun planets keep disappearing scientists blame Einstein
- Black hole jets measured for first time and rival the power of 10,000 suns
- Total solar eclipse led to seismic quiet for cities within its path
- Black hole wakes after 100 million years and erupts like a cosmic volcano
- Life on Mars? Tiny cells just survived shock waves and toxic soil
- The Universe is expanding too fast and scientists still can’t explain it








