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
- Japan Launches the Martian Moons Exploration Mission
- Webb and Spitzer Telescopes Explore the Planets That Never Were
- Chile’s Light-Pollution Standard Takes Full Effect
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 16 – 25
- A Cloud Forms Spontaneously Over a Mountain on Mars — Here’s Why
- Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower
- NASA Initiative to Study the Moon's Environment
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 16 – 25
- Rise Early on October 22nd for the Orionid Meteor Shower
- 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
Universe Today
- Scientists Use Ancient Rains to Map the Possible Origin Life on Mars
- JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration Mission is on its Way to Mars and Phobos
- The Gas Near Sagittarius A-star is Enriched in Metals, Probably from Supernovae Explosions
- A Magnetar Can Be Born When Two Neutron Stars Touch
- The Moon is Still Shrinking as it Cools. That Could Create a Hazard for Lunar Mission.
NASA Breaking News
- NASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Over Texas Farmland
- NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module
- NASA Experimental Mars Helicopter Blade Designs Target Longer Flights
- NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers
- Webb Captures Stellar Jets
- NASA Welcomes Uzbekistan as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
- APOD: 2026 October 20 – An Anticrepuscular Rainbow Fan
Science Daily
- Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes
- NASA reveals 16 stunning galaxies hiding cosmic chaos
- NASA solves a strange mystery hidden inside asteroid Bennu’s boulders
- Astronomers discover a ghostly green star unlike any known before
- Two monster black holes could collide in just 100 years
- NASA’s SpaceX launch lights up the sky with a giant glowing jellyfish
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%








