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
- October Podcast: Saturn is a “Star”
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- 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
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 25 – October 2
- NASA Selects Far-Infrared Mission PRIMA to Survey the Cool Universe
S&T Night Sky News
- Saturn Flaunts its Rings at Opposition the Night of October 3–4
- 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
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 11 – 20
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 4 – 13
NASA Breaking News
- NASA Awards Enterprise Logistics Support Services Agreements
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches
- What’s Up: October 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches to International Space Station
- NASA’s Webb Provides Crash Course on Planet-Shattering Collisions
- APOD: 2026 October 1 – Harvest Moon with Erupting Mount Etna
- An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta
Science Daily
- A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
- NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds groundwater, lakes, and hot fluids in one place
- Black hole jets may decide the fate of entire galaxies
- Watch Live: NASA’s Crew-13 could make the fastest U.S. trip to the ISS ever
- NASA’s Curiosity rover just hit 5,000 days on Mars and sent back this stunning view
- The ice blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized
- NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours








