Announcements

As David Helfand explains, we plan to overhaul our governance model for the first time in more than half a century. We invite your feedback on our proposal by Friday, 12 May.

With a new son in the house and a new AAS governance model in the works, Kevin Marvel's mind is on new beginnings for his family and the Society.

Attend this “mini-conference” at the summer meeting in Austin to learn about hot Jupiters and closely packed super-Earths orbiting puzzlingly close to their host stars.

The 230th AAS meeting regular registration deadline is Friday, 14 April, and the late abstract deadline is Wednesday, 19 April. Register and submit your poster abstract today and join us in Austin!

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

Members of AAS came to Capitol Hill for AAS Congressional Visits Day to get firsthand experience advocating for science with their members of Congress.

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

Hosted by the SETI Institute, this 8-week program will bring 12 planetary scientists and 12 computer scientists together to tackle challenges covering planetary defense, space weather, and space resources. Deadline: 19...

Register for the James Webb Space Telescope Proposal Planning Workshop when you register for the AAS summer meeting to learn about the proposal and planning tools necessary for JWST proposal submission.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 30 March, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about the monster black hole that was kicked out of its home galaxy by gravitational waves.

Co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union and the European Astrobiology Campus, this symposium will take place 3-7 July 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April.

The AAS has joined with more than 100 other scientific organizations across all disciplines to become an official partner of the March for Science scheduled for Saturday, 22 April, in more than 400 world cities.

Join us in Palm Springs, California, 7-12 May for the AAS Topical Conference Series meeting on Radio Exploration of Planetary Habitability, and register by Monday, 27 March, to save over late or onsite rates!

A new citizen-science project involving the AAS journals will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life.

At its January 2017 meeting, the AAS Council unanimously passed a new resolution endorsing recent reports on light pollution and calling on all AAS members to advocate for dark skies in their own communities.