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This annual competition, which for 2017 includes an astronomy category, celebrates the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. Deadline for entries: 31 August.

Time to start thinking about the AAS winter meeting, taking place in Washington, DC, 8-12 January 2018. Special Session and Town Hall proposals for the 231st AAS meeting are due 26 May.

Each month in this series from the Historical Astronomy Division, an important discovery or memorable event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at the women working at Dudley Observatory.

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

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers over 50 awards in physics and astronomy, including a new Astronomy & Antarctic Studies Award for postdoctoral/early career scientists. Current award application deadline: 1 August.

Come hear brief reports from the Society's leadership and propose candidates to the AAS Nominating Committee during the annual Members' Meeting at the 230th AAS meeting in Austin, Texas.

Hack Together Day is a day to work intensively on collaborative projects of interest to the astronomical community. No hack day or programming experience necessary to participate!

Jesus Rivera, a graduate student at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, describes his experience at the March 2017 AAS Congressional Visits Day.

A recently adopted AAS meetings policy reinforces the Society's commitment to making its meetings welcoming to all attendees, regardless of identities such as sexual orientation and gender expression.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 11 May, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about gravitational lenses and a newly discovered gravitationally-lensed type Ia supernova.

Ask your senators to sign onto a "Dear Colleague Letter" to show their support for robust funding for NSF.

If you plan to photograph the August 21st total solar eclipse or know others who plan to do so, please join and/or promote the Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project.

Congress has reached an agreement on funding for FY 2017. Here we provide some detail about the funding for NASA, NSF, and DOE.

Nominations for most AAS prizes and awards for 2018 are due in the Secretary's office by 30 June 2017. All of these prizes and awards are now open to self-nominations, thanks to a change in the rules.

From 24 to 28 March 2018, Japan's brand new Fukuoka City Science Museum will host the world's largest conference on astronomy communication.