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The National Academies invite you to attend a town hall webinar on Monday, 28 October 2019, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm ET as part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Register today!

The International Astronomical Union encourages applications for new Individual and Junior members to be admitted in 2020. Apply by 15 December 2019.

Welcome to the newly redesigned aas.org! With a fresh look and feel and an intuitive design, our new website exemplifies the AAS’s mission to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe...

AAS members are invited to "Engaging the Cosmic Perspective to Address Environmental and Social Issues" at the Holiday Inn Washington-Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, 23 October.

Nominations are now invited for the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, San Diego. Application deadline: Friday, 31 January 2020.

Wildlife safaris during the day, and stargazing under pristine Southern Hemisphere skies during the night. Sound good? Join Sky & Telescope's Botswana tour in July 2020.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 goes to physical cosmologist James Peebles and pioneering exoplanet hunters Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.

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

It’s time to choose our Doxsey Prize winners from among those giving dissertation talks at the 235th AAS meeting. We seek members willing to review and rank dissertation abstracts. Signup deadline: 17 October.

The AAS Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris Committee invites you to submit a poster abstract for a Special Session to be held at the 235th AAS meeting in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

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 2019.

We welcome our new AAS Media Fellow, Tarini Konchady of Texas A&M University, and wish her predecessor, Kerry Hensley, all the best as she works to wrap up her PhD at Boston University.

Here is a look at events on the schedule for October.

The nighttime astronomy facilities supported by the National Science Foundation are now operating as one organization: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory.

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