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We honor the memory of our departed colleagues. The Historical Astronomy Division commissions and compiles obituaries for deceased AAS members and depends on you, our members, for help writing them.

A great thing about the AAS summer meetings is the opportunity to attend member-organized Special Sessions. Join Vinay Kashyap and Aneta Siemiginowska at the upcoming meeting in Austin for Topics in Astrostatistics.

Guerilla Science and Pratt Institute are launching a paid artists and scientists residency program in the US focused on combining art and science in public programs at the Oregon Eclipse festival. Applications due 28...

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

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 27 April, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about how scientists are using data from the New Horizons mission to learn about distant galaxies.

Each month as part of this series from the Historical Astronomy Division, an important discovery or memorable event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at a 1920s debate about the...

Sign up to be one of 50 presenters to help the AAS test a new, interactive poster presentation system at the 230th AAS meeting in Austin, Texas, this June.

Join NASA in its efforts to engage the public about the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse by volunteering as a subject matter expert.

We are in need of full and advanced junior members to judge student posters at the AAS summer meeting in Austin, Texas, for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 13 April, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about NASA's SOFIA airborne astronomical observatory and the instruments being built for this unique program.

Thank you to the 40 winter meeting attendees who generously donated to the developing initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of the Society associated with travel to meetings.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the North American ALMA Regional Center are accepting proposals for observing opportunities for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. First deadline: 20 April.

Julie Davis, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes her experience at the March 2017 AAS Congressional Visits Day.

As David Helfand explains, we plan to overhaul our governance model for the first time in more than half a century. We invite your feedback on our proposal by Friday, 12 May.

With a new son in the house and a new AAS governance model in the works, Kevin Marvel's mind is on new beginnings for his family and the Society.