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AAS journals Science Editor Brian Jackson will discuss the publication process for the AAS journals and answer your questions. Join us on Tuesday, 11 January, at 5:30 pm MT in the Exhibitor Theater.

The AAS WorldWide Telescope project has collaborated with the iPosters team to make it possible to include WWT's interactive FITS image viewer right inside your iPoster.

In the final installment of our two-part series, get to know the candidates for Vice President and the Nominating Committee. Balloting for the 2022 AAS election will begin on Friday, 17 December.

The Education Committee invites proposals from US-based AAS members to provide education-related mentoring and professional-development experiences for fellow members. Extended deadline: 19 January 2022.

To celebrate the public release of the Asclepias tool, join us for a special session at the 239th AAS Meeting in Salt Lake City on Monday, 10 January 2022.

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.

The Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE) program is hosting an information session on 16 December to discuss the program and answer questions from potential partnership proposers.

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

Get to know the candidates for At-Large Trustee and the US National Committee for the International Astronomical Union (USNC/IAU) representative. Balloting for the 2022 AAS election will begin in a few weeks.

The AAS Public Policy Department is now accepting applications for our annual Congressional Visits Day (CVD). The deadline to sign up for AAS CVD 2022 is Sunday, 27 February 2022.

If you do your holiday shopping on Amazon, select “American Astronomical Society” as your charity of choice at AmazonSmile and you will automatically raise money for the AAS. It doesn’t cost you a thing!

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.

The American Astronomical Society enthusiastically endorses the Astro2020 decadal survey and urges the astronomical community to support the report and its priorities. 

AAS President Paula Szkody and members of the Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris are extremely concerned by the anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on 15 November.