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The AAS WorldWide Telescope project is excited to announce the launch of our updated website. Visit us at https://worldwidetelescope.org/home/.

Research Notes of the AAS is giving authors a little more room to report works in progress, introduce ideas, offer commentaries, or share negative results: a 150-word abstract and up to 1,350 words of text.

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

Based on testimony to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey, SpaceX has posted a rather lengthy and detailed update on its efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of its Starlink satellite constellation on ground-based astronomy.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has decided not to give out ASP awards in 2020 and not to hold its annual awards gala.

The National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of new members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are seven current or former AAS members.

On the centennial of the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis on humanity's place in the universe, a series of online articles, videos, and commentaries looks at how we might find life beyond Earth.

Belinda Wilkes, who has served as Director of the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) since 2014, will leave her position later this year. She will continue to serve while the search for a new CXC Director is under way.

Astronomy departments at US universities have a new opportunity to train graduate students in leadership skills in collaboration with the Osterbrock Leadership Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 30th anniversary, the AAS and IOP Publishing are making Robert Williams's ebook Hubble Deep Field and the Distant Universe available for free on 24-25 April 2020!

Abraham Loeb (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) will be nominated to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources measured in data collected from 2010 to 2018. The catalog is now available at NERSC and will be available in the next few weeks via IRSA.

AAS Executive Officer Kevin Marvel provides a status report on Society activities and programs as of mid-April, while we're still under lockdown, working remotely, and looking ahead to a dynamic virtual summer meeting.

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 AAS and Institute of Physics have now published 16 ebooks in astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary science by influential authors from around the globe. Have an idea for an ebook? We'd love to hear from you!