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
- Some Pairs of Stars Weren’t Born That Way
- 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
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
- From 10 to 22 years: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Mission Has Just Been Extended.
- If Black Holes Have Hair, We Will See It in the Ringdown of Their Mergers
- ALMA is Watching a Massive Binary Star System Form
- CubeSat Instrument Extends Solar Storm Warnings 10x
- Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a City on the Moon
NASA Breaking News
- NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon Night
- Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with NASA
- Artemis III Crew Visits NASA Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation
- Travel
- APOD: 2026 September 15 – A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
- Webinar 9/23: NASA CSDA Program Update 2026
Science Daily
- Supermassive black hole winds are 100 times more powerful than scientists thought
- 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








