Announcements

The AAS Public Policy Department is now accepting applications for our annual Congressional Visits Day (CVD). The deadline to sign up for AAS CVD 2022 is Sunday, 27 February 2022.

If you do your holiday shopping on Amazon, select “American Astronomical Society” as your charity of choice at AmazonSmile and you will automatically raise money for the AAS. It doesn’t cost you a thing!

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.

The American Astronomical Society enthusiastically endorses the Astro2020 decadal survey and urges the astronomical community to support the report and its priorities. 

AAS President Paula Szkody and members of the Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris are extremely concerned by the anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on 15 November.

Join us on 17 November for the upcoming TEAM-UP webinar. Co-sponsored by the AAS, the webinar will focus on the concept of physics identity and empowering African American students in building their physics identities.

In this Education Committee blog post, Andrew Fraknoi looks at ways that you could bring popular culture — music, science fiction, plays, advertising, and more — into your introductory astronomy classes and labs.

At its recent virtual meeting, the National Society of Black Physicists chose the winners of the AAS-sponsored Beth Brown Memorial Awards for oral and poster presentations.

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, Michael Wang writes about the first successful measurement of stellar parallax, which was officially announced this month in 1838.

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

The AAS is honored to be continuing the legacy of Willmann-Bell, Inc. by selling and publishing their robust catalog of astronomy books. Twelve of the most popular titles are now available for sale via Shop@Sky.

Nominations for the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize are invited annually from the fields of astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Deadline: 15 December 2021.

Join a free webinar on Wednesday, 3 November, as our career consultant Alaina G. Levine discusses the current job market's challenges and opportunities for those in the astronomical sciences.