Announcements

Please participate in a brief survey about the new HAD series "The Month in Astronomical History" to improve future content and suggest topics.

Join this interactive online hangout on Thursday, 15 September, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about the challenges and excitement of astronomy with SOFIA and NASA's airborne astronomy program.

The Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3-meter telescope optimized for infrared observations and located atop Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. Proposals for observations beginning in February 2017 are due by 3 October.

Doug Roberts, AAS WorldWide Telescope Project Director, describes the new WWT WebGL Web Client, upcoming online training, and the 2016 WorldWide Telescope prize.

We're looking for volunteers to help sort abstracts for the 229th AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas, into the appropriate sessions. Sorters are able to complete the process on their own time. Please consider volunteering!

Renew your AAS membership today to avoid losing valuable benefits, like discounted meeting registration and journal subscriptions, Physics Today, and much more.

Hurry up and make your plans for the DPS 48 / EPSC 11 meeting in Pasadena, California, 16-21 October! The hotel reservation deadline is Wednesday, 14 September, and online registration closes Friday, 16 September.

Join this interactive online hangout on Thursday, 8 September, at 3:00 pm ET to hear about the recently discovered Earth-sized planet around Proxima Centauri.

A special session on CubeSats will take place during the 229th AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas. Poster submissions on all aspects of CubeSats in astronomy & astrophysics are being solicited for the session.

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 National Science Foundation and Popular Science invite you to submit your best science and engineering visualizations to the Vizzies competition, now in its 15th year. Deadline: 15 September.

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.

Each month as part of this series from HAD, an important discovery or memorable event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at the life and work of Edwin Hubble.

The Spitzer Space Telescope & Chandra X-ray Observatory teams invite others studying the variability of Sgr A* to consider scheduling observations during the Spitzer/Chandra monitoring to enhance the value of all data...

Recent PhD recipients from US institutions are invited to apply for this award, administered by Associated Universities, Inc. and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Application deadline: 31 December 2016.