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
- "Little Red Dot" Is a Cocooned Black Hole
- See Venus Disappear in Broad Daylight on June 17th
- Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System?
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 12 – 21
- Revival of Australia’s Molonglo Radio Telescope
- Meet Callisto, Jupiter's Ancient Moon
- Alan Hale (1958-2026)
S&T Night Sky News
- See Venus Disappear in Broad Daylight on June 17th
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 12 – 21
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 5 – 14
- Chance of Aurora Extends to Friday Night, June 5th
- Venus, Jupiter Converge in Stunning June 9th Dusk Conjunction
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 29 – June 7
- Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
Universe Today
- What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
- The History and Scientific Impact of Hubble’s Deep Field Imaging
- Future Martian Colonists Will Need a New Relativistic Clock
- Are Alien Probes Hiding in Our Backyard? A New Study Says We’ve Barely Looked
- The Best Place to Look for Alien Megastructures Might Be Moon Dust
NASA Breaking News
- Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
- NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation
- NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade
- NASA Uses Machine Learning to Enhance Flash Flood Warnings
- Department of Health and Human Services Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network Challenge
- Metrics
- Aurora Australis
Science Daily
- Alien messages may have reached Earth without us realizing it
- A dying star could create a new universe instead of a black hole
- Alien planet spins revealed a hidden clue to how worlds form
- Dark energy survives major challenge as universe keeps accelerating
- NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever
- James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world
- MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars








