Announcements

Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science projects that make use of the network's unique combination of capabilities to advance the field of time domain astronomy. Deadline: 24 October.

The AAS Historical Astronomy Division is pleased to present the 2025 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Seb Falk for his work The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (W. W. Norton, 2020).

Applications for the 2nd NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School — a three-month-long career-development experience — are due 4 November.

AAS members can now purchase the 2024 edition, Vol. 62, of Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics at a 21% discount.

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.

You may have noticed a few recent changes in the look and style of articles published in AAS journals. The Publications Committee explains some of the recent style updates here.

Kerry Kroffe is serving as the AAS Director of Scholarly Publishing following the recent retirement of AAS Chief Publishing Officer Julie Steffen.

AAS President Dara Norman shares her thoughts on the 125th anniversary of the founding of the AAS and encourages the community to reinvest in the Society that supports our curiosity and our scientific aspirations.

The Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) is a 3-meter telescope optimized for infrared observations and located at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai‘i. Observing proposals for the 2025A semester are due by Tuesday, 1 October.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The September 2024 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

A series of workshops will take place from September to November to train users on basic data processing and analysis techniques that they may need to use the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) for...

For one departmental payment of $146, the applying student would have free AAS membership for four years: two years with departmental support and two years with support from the Society.

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.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Mike Marotta writes about the solar storm events of 1859.

Register by 19 September for the Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute, a professional development program for physics and astronomy faculty focused on effective and inclusive teaching practice.