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 Solar System Has a New Life Expectancy, and It’s a Billion Times Shorter
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 9 – 18
- Meet the Star Cluster That Defies Conventions
- Fast Radio Burst Shatters Distance Record
- Neutrino Hunter Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter Early October 6th
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 9 – 18
- Rare Sight Ahead! Watch the Moon Occult Jupiter Early October 6th
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 2 – 11
- 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
NASA Breaking News
- NASA JPL Testing Readies Voyager Technologies Lander for Moon Mission
- NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 35th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station
- APOD: 2026 October 13 – Desert Stairway to Heaven
- An Impact Structure With Legs
- NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Mission to Launch Health Research
- APOD: 2026 October 12 – Jupiter and the Moons
- Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum
Science Daily
- James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe
- Europe's new Sentinel-3C satellite just sent back spectacular images of Earth
- NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth
- MIT astronomers catch a star in a feast that could last billions of years
- Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
- A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy
- NASA astronauts splash down after 100 million miles in space








