The immediate answer may be ‘no’. However, this site follows from yet-another-urging from the good people at the American Astronomical Society, raising the point that members of Congress (and their staffs) think scientists generally do not communicate with the public. After a time, even the thickest of skulls gets the message.
The ‘plan’ is a post at an approximately once-per-week rate commenting on recent discoveries and thoughts on astrophysics in general or some topic in particular.
This week saw the emergence of Comet PanSTARRS (2011/L4) from behind the Sun. I helped to coordinate a group, including the general public, to take a look on Tuesday evening (12 March), that being the likely best night to spot the comet. The weather cooperated very nicely. The chase was fun — we had to find the ~1-day-old moon, then look S of the Moon by a few degrees to spot the comet, and do so before both objects set (or, properly, the horizon rose to cover them!). There was a narrow window in which the comet was sufficiently far from the Sun to be visible yet sufficiently close to be bright. And saw it we did! The length of the tail was approximately 1/2-3/4 of the diameter of the Moon. Not the brightest comet I’ve seen, but certainly one of the more challenging ones to spot.
Returning to the comment about Congress — I counter that we professional scientists do attempt to communicate (as the PanSTARRS effort shows), but that demands on our time increasingly leave little time for such effort. Unfortunately, too many of those demands are ‘compliance issues’. All of us understand that the use of public money requires accounting, but if the administrivia costs more than the dollar amount involved, that wastes scientists’ time. Frustrating, annoying, pointless, …
— ems