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Sethuraman Panchanathan has been officially confirmed as NSF's 15th director. He commits to a continued push for inclusiveness in science and engineering and to the advancement of world-leading fundamental research.

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.

Join the online symposium to honor the late pioneer E. Margaret Burbidge on 8 July 2020. The event will celebrate her life and science through short talks from her colleagues and collaborators and other researchers.

As part of the career-related content series produced by Alaina G. Levine, Tip Sheet 1 elaborates the benefits for AAS members, from volunteering on committees and task forces to staying connected on social media.

Find out what's in the August 2020 issue of Sky & Telescope, such as George Nicholas Saegmuller’s innovative large refractors, including one that's thought to have been stolen or destroyed by Nazis during World War II.

Each month this series from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division highlights an important discovery or memorable event. In this installment we focus on the first recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s comet.

Congratulations to the winners of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards poster competition held at the virtual 236th AAS meeting, 1-3 June 2020!

The International Astronomical Union’s North American Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (ROAD) is conducting a needs assessment for the continent. Survey deadline: 15 July.

Uncertainty about how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve during the rest of 2020 have prompted NASA to extend some upcoming deadlines, including the due date for James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 1 proposals.

Each month this series from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division highlights an important discovery or memorable event. In this installment we focus on one of the strangest solar eclipse expeditions in history.

We've received numerous reports from international readers about delays in receiving their issues of Sky & Telescope magazine. Here's an explanation and some ideas on how to replace missing issues.

To help students struggling through financial challenges caused by the pandemic, the American Institute of Physics has established an emergency relief fund to support needs-based scholarships for undergraduates.

The AAS encourages everyone in our community to make a lifelong commitment to action to eradicate anti-Black racism in the astronomical sciences and in academia and research more generally, beginning Wednesday, 10 June.

In case you missed the annual members' meeting at AAS 236, you can now watch the video recording (you must log in to view it).

The grant will support the development of new features in WWT to enable the interactive visualization of the enormous images that emerge from cutting-edge telescopes like the Rubin Observatory.