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Congratulations to everyone involved in the amazing results shared this week on the first joint detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from the merger of two neutron stars!

The James Webb Space Telescope ERO Committee welcomes suggestions from the astronomical community for early targets to showcase the observatory’s capabilities.

Membership renewal reminders, invoices, and a handy return envelope will arrive in your mailbox this month.

The National Science Foundation is seeking community input on existing and future needs for mid-scale ($20-$100 million) research infrastructure projects. The deadline to respond is 8 December 2017.

Submit your application by 15 November to join the team responsible for the widely acclaimed blog that summarizes one astro-ph preprint each day.

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

Our sixth annual AAS Astronomy Ambassadors workshop on effective outreach for early-career scientists will be held at the 231st AAS meeting in Washington, DC, in January. Applications are due by 19 October 2017.

The number of astronomy and physics bachelor’s degrees and the number of astronomy PhDs awarded to the class of 2016 represent all-time highs.

Each month in this series from the Historical Astronomy Division, an important event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at the invention of the telescope.

The AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program places science, engineering, and mathematics students and postdocs at media organizations nationwide. Applications open 16 October.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 12 October, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about the remarkable journey of the twin Voyager spacecraft.

The EHT is an international collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized radio telescope. Here's a brief status report on our observations and analysis.

Since the AAS took on WWT management, we have been working to better integrate the program into the astronomical research and publishing process. We're excited to announce a new platform-agnostic version!

The early registration and poster abstract deadlines for the 231st AAS meeting will be extended for those from the greater Houston area, South Florida, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean.

Congratulations to new Nobel laureates Rainer Weiss (MIT), Barry Barish & Kip Thorne (both Caltech), cited "for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."