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 Night Sky News
- 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
- Did You See the Solar Eclipse? Here’s What We Saw, from Around the World
- A Perfectly Timed Perseid Meteor Shower
- Rare Total Solar Eclipse-Perseid Meteor Shower Double-Header August 12th
Universe Today
- A Tool for Measuring the Mass of the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Gets a Tweak
- Ancient Dust Grains Hold Magnetic Clues to the Sun's Birth
- NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
- Interstellar Travel V: Warp Drives, Wormholes, and Halo Drives
- Spaceflight Leaves Heart Muscle Cell Strength Intact
NASA Image of the Day
- NASA's Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- Civil Servants Sworn in at NASA Ames
- Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
- Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on Spacewalk
- NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman at Freedom 250 Grand Prix
- Webb Opens Treasure Chest
- Artemis Mission Patches
NASA Breaking News
- Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23
- NASA Deep Space Network’s New Goldstone Antenna Goes Online
- Panorama Showcasing the 34-Meter Antennas of the DSN’s Goldstone Complex
- NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
- NASA’s Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge
- President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award
Science Daily
- This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole
- Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars
- The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why
- NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble
- “I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion
- A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars
- Scientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light








