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
- Lunar Impact from Asteroid 2024 YR4 Ruled Out
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Rubin Observatory Sends 800,000 Alerts to Astronomers — Per Night
- AI Reveals New Galaxies in James Webb Space Telescope Images
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
- Largest Image of Its Kind Will Solve Milky Way Mystery
- March Podcast: The Winter Triangle
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 27 – March 8
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 20 – March 1
- Watch the Young Moon Greet Mercury at Sunset
- Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as "Ice Volcano" Erupts
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 13 – 22
Universe Today
- How Jagged Moon Dust Could Support Future Astronauts
- Terraforming Mars Isn't a Climate Problem—It's an Industrial Nightmare
- Starshade concept could reveal Earth-like exoplanets
- Astronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the Heart of the Milky Way
- Astronauts Use Bacteria and Fungi to Harvest Metals in Space
NASA Breaking News
- La NASA compartirá información actualizada sobre la evaluación de aptitud para el vuelo de Artemis II
- NASA to Share Artemis II Flight Readiness Review Update
- TB 26-03 Flammability Testing Configuration and Approach of Barrier MaterialAssemblies Designed for Space Flight Applications
- Webb Studies Cranium Nebula
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
- From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry
- Lake Coatepeque
Science Daily
- Astronomers create the largest 3D map of the early universe revealing hidden galaxies
- Particles may not follow Einstein’s paths after all
- NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other
- Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way
- ALMA captures the most detailed image ever of the Milky Way’s turbulent core
- Neutrinos could explain why matter survived the Big Bang
- Blasted off Mars and still alive








