Announcements

AAS President Christine Jones responds to the devastating events in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 24 August, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about WASP-121b, an exoplanet with a scorching hot atmosphere.

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

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA issue this open letter to the international scientific community to announce plans for enabling community participation in XARM.

If you plan to attend the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Provo this October, note that the regular registration deadline is Tuesday, 29 August, and late abstracts are due Thursday, 31 August!

Applications for the 2018 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award are now being accepted from recent PhD recipients whose doctoral thesis is based on data from an AUI facility. Deadline: 31 December.

The Arecibo Observatory invites proposals for the use of the Arecibo 305-m telescope within the six-month (or in some cases, one-year) period beginning 1 January 2018. Proposal deadline: 7 September 2017.

Submit your oral or poster abstract for the 231st AAS meeting by 3 October to be added to the meeting program. Registration and the hotel block for the winter meeting will open near the end of August.

The AAS Spring/Summer 2017 Campaign, highlighting trailblazing women in astronomy, wraps up on Friday, 25 August. Please give to the funds, prizes, programs, and activities that mean the most to you.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 10 August, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about the upcoming solar eclipse and the features of the solar corona.

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

Slooh, a global telescope network and web-based astronomy education and outreach hub, has made its live telescope feeds freely available worldwide in furtherance of its mission to benefit the astronomy community.

AAS members can purchase the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics and/or the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences at significant savings.

The AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives is the collecting repository of AIP and its member societies. It is open to the public and welcomes researchers from all over the world both in-person and online.

The ESA-led Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravitational wave mission is accepting nominations for NASA's LISA Study Team and ESA's LISA Science Study Team. Nomination deadline: 1 September 2017.