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

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

President Obama hosted the first ever White House Science Fair six years ago and will host the final fair of his administration on Wednesday, 13 April. Watch online at wh.gov/science-fair.

We're looking for volunteers to help at the 228th AAS meeting in San Diego. Undergrads, grads, postdocs, local amateur astronomers, and others are all invited to help.

Join this interactive online hangout 1 April at 3:00 pm ET to hear about future scientific goals for Mars and how working together with human exploration may make them possible.

International Dark Sky Week, started in 2003, aims to draw public attention to the problems associated with light pollution and promote simple solutions to lessen its effects.

Two AAS-endorsed regional meetings, the MidAmerican Regional Astrophysics Conference and the 2016 Kentucky Area Meeting, will take place 8-9 April 2016.

NEOWISE and IPAC announce the NEOWISE 2016 data release. The combined archive of the first two years of data includes 5.1 million images and 38.1 billion source detections from those images.

AAS members from across the US traveled to Washington, DC, to advocate for federal support of science with their members of Congress during our Congressional Visits Day in March 2016.

A Call for Proposals for North American ALMA Development Studies was issued 1 March 2016 for studies of ideas that may be further developed in a subsequent funding cycle. Deadline: 2 May 2016

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for 1mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) using the phased output of ALMA and EHT. Deadline: 28 April 2016, 23:59 UT

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is pleased to announce the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals for scientific observations to be scheduled from October 2016 to September 2017. Deadline: 21 April 2016, 15:00...

Fox-TV is searching for people of all ages with extraordinary mental or physical abilities — and they've come to the AAS for help because they know that astronomers are extraordinary.

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