Announcements

AAS President Megan Donahue offers some thoughts on astronomically relevant sections of the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021.

It's our annual call to AAS members to update their information and preferences for the printed Membership Directory. The deadline for changes is Monday, 2 March.

The International Astronomical Union summarizes our current understanding of the impacts that megaconstellations of communication satellites may have on astronomical observations and on the visual appearance of the night...

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.

Slidecasts of 25 invited talks and prize lectures presented at the 2020 winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI, are now online for members. Sign in to view them at your leisure.

Find out what's in the March 2020 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, including a history of explorer and astronomer Captain Cook.

Help fight light pollution by inviting your students, family, and friends to participate in the Globe at Night citizen-science effort. Just match your view of Orion to one of eight charts to determine how badly your sky...

Visiting New York soon? "Imaging Women in the Space Age," an exhibition launched last July to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, has been extended through 29 March 2020 at the New York Hall of...

The National Academy of Sciences, Kavli Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will host a symposium in Washington, DC, to consider the future of science in the US and how it can best serve society. Attend in person...

The International Astronomical Union's CAP 2020 Conference will be held 21-25 September at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and the organizers invite proposals for talks, posters, and workshops. Deadline: 15...

Each month this series from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division highlights an important discovery or memorable event. In this installment we focus on the “king of amateur astronomy conferences” and “Woodstock of...

Voting in the AAS election of Officers and At-Large Trustees for terms beginning in 2020 closed on 31 January, and the ballots have been counted. The envelopes, please...

Here is a look at astronomy-related policy events on the schedule for February 2020.

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

The International Astronomical Union has established its 11th Regional Office of Astronomy for Development to execute the vision of “Astronomy for a Better World." It will be operated by a consortium of North American...