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The AAS Historical Astronomy Division is pleased to present the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Ileana Chinnici for her work Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (Brill 2019).

The AAS Membership Directory is published annually by the AAS Executive Office. The 2020 edition comes in a PDF version and is available to AAS members.

The quarterly Arecibo Observatory newsletter features science highlights and updates about the telescope, staff, and current education programs. Read the fall newsletter online.

The International Astronomical Union encourages applications for new Individual and Junior members to be admitted in 2021. Apply by 15 December 2020.

The AAS Public Policy team virtually attended the first open sessions of the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 last week. Here is a recap of those sessions.

The American Institute of Physics has appointed Taharee Jackson to help prevent future scientists in physics, astronomy, and related fields from suffering the discriminatory trauma that far too many have faced.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The October issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Additional funding from the Gruber Foundation is making it possible for the International Astronomical Union to support a third outstanding early career astrophysicist with a Gruber Fellowship.

NASA’s Kepler mission was all about finding planets outside our solar system, but it also revitalized the study of stars. Read all about it in the latest title in the AAS-IOP Astronomy eBook Collection.

Our annual members' visit to Capitol Hill had been planned for mid-March this year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic we postponed to September and decided to try a virtual CVD. It went reasonably well!

The AAS Historical Astronomy Division has a new section of the BAAS website with obituaries of nearly all AAS members who have died since 1991.

The deadline to submit proposals to the AAS for National Osterbrock Leadership Program nodes has been extended until 23 October. Don't miss this chance to secure matching funds to train future leaders in our field!

The Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education has released a repository of information on their efforts, along with an annual report on the Action Collaborative’s activities.

AAS Nova provides highlights of recent articles from AJ, ApJ, ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, PSJ, and RNAAS to inform you about discoveries you might otherwise overlook.

Here is a look at astronomy-related policy events on the schedule for October 2020.