Announcements

Congratulations to the six winners of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards poster competition from the latest AAS meeting in St. Louis!

If you’re a student member of the AAS, please take a few minutes to verify or update your information in our records to confirm your appropriate membership class. Deadline: 9 August.

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific announces the publication of Celebrating the 2017 Great American Eclipse: Lessons Learned from the Path of Totality, part of the ASP Conference Series.

The AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy is awarding its 2019 Vera Rubin Early Career Prize to Jo Bovy (University of Toronto) for his work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.

Northwestern University theoretical astrophysicist Fred Rasio, who also serves as Editor of ApJ Letters, will receive the Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy.

Executive Officer Kevin Marvel explains some of the background behind the Society's acquisition of Sky & Telescope magazine.

The AAS has agreed to acquire Sky & Telescope magazine and its related business assets following the bankruptcy of current owner F+W Media.

Astrobites has published summaries of many of the plenary talks and press briefings from throughout the 234th AAS meeting.

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

You are invited to attend a symposium in honor of Vera Rubin being held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, 24-26 June. Registration is open until 20 June.

The Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory invites proposals for the use of the 14m radio telescoope from October 2019 to May 2020. Proposals are due by the end of August.

This annual competition, which includes an astronomy category, celebrates the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. Deadline for entries: 30 August.

The Inclusive Astronomy 2 (IA2) conference will be held 14-15 October 2019 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Join us to envision how to make astronomy more diverse and inclusive.

Members of the House Science Committee have introduced a bill to rename the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope for Vera Rubin, a renowned astronomer and advocate for women in science.

In response to the launch by SpaceX of 60 Starlink satellites with plans for thousands more, the AAS Board of Trustees expresses concern over these satellites' potential to interfere with astronomical observations and...