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Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The October 2024 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Astrophysicist and AAS member Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University) is one of 22 writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, and entrepreneurs in the 2024 class of MacArthur Fellows.

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.

In this Education Committee Blog post, Mariah MacDonald discusses how she implements "ungrading," an alternative approach to student assessment, and summarizes its effect on student performance and motivation.

Dr. Chintan Shah (Johns Hopkins University) is being honored by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division for contributions in the field of modeling and X-ray/ultraviolet spectroscopy of atoms in astrophysical plasma...

Michael McCarthy (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) will receive the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division's highest honor in recognition of his contributions to the field of high-resolution spectroscopy of...

In this Education Committee Blog post, Julie Posselt introduces democratic merit as an anchoring concept that can improve how we select and train the next generation in astronomy and astrophysics.

The High Contrast Data Centre, previously the SPHERE Data Centre, is pleased to announce some recent evolutions, including a new website, a new query interface, and new data releases.

Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science projects that make use of the network's unique combination of capabilities to advance the field of time domain astronomy. Deadline: 24 October.

The AAS Historical Astronomy Division is pleased to present the 2025 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Seb Falk for his work The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (W. W. Norton, 2020).

Applications for the 2nd NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School — a three-month-long career-development experience — are due 4 November.

AAS members can now purchase the 2024 edition, Vol. 62, of Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics at a 21% discount.

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.

You may have noticed a few recent changes in the look and style of articles published in AAS journals. The Publications Committee explains some of the recent style updates here.