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
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter on October 6th
- October Podcast: Saturn is a “Star”
- Did Venus Swallow Its Moon?
- Rejected: Spain’s Proposal to Build the Thirty Meter Telescope on La Palma
- Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Makes Penultimate Earth Flyby
S&T Night Sky News
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter on October 6th
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 25 – October 2
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 18 – 27
- Join the World in Observing the Moon on September 19th
- Second Bright Supernova in Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in a Year
Universe Today
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Drops New View of our Galaxy’s Unruly Centre
- Neutrons, Rotating Black Holes, and a Galactic PeVatron at the Center of the Milky Way
- Space Radiation Sparks A Biological Cascade Of Cancer
- X-Rays and AI Reveal How Spacecraft Heat Shields Burn in Real Time
- XRISM Makes First-Ever Detection of a Pulsar Feeding from a Companion's Stellar "Wind"
NASA Breaking News
- NASA to Stream SpaceX Crew-12 Return, Splashdown Live
- NASA Astronaut Christina Koch at Eagles vs. Rams
- NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety
- Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case
- APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams
- Moon-Like Madagascar
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek
Science Daily
- Don't miss: Watch Saturn shine and Halley’s Comet debris streak across the sky
- This mysterious hole on the Moon may open into a giant cave
- A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought
- Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up
- ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter
- Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule
- Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe








