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As a service to the community, the AAS is compiling a list of live-streamed astronomy presentations and events — both those intended for professional astronomers and those intended for a wider audience.

We are looking into converting the 236th AAS meeting to a fully virtual conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Wisconsin's declaration of a public health emergency.

The AAS and Institute of Physics Publishing are working to ensure continuous access to the AAS journals for those who are now working away from their institution’s network in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

FDL pairs researchers from astronomy and related sciences with data scientists for an 8-week sprint to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to challenges important to NASA’s science and exploration goals...

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 Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3-meter telescope optimized for infrared observations and located at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai‘i. Observing proposals for the 2020B semester are due by Thursday, 9 April.

The European Astronomical Society is awarding its 2020 Fritz Zwicky Prize to honorary AAS member Martin J. Rees (Cambridge University) for his many influential contributions to astrophysics and cosmology.

Proposals are now being accepted by the NSF’s OIR Lab for observing time from August 2020 through January 2021 at various facilities. The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2020.

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

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 2019 Robert L. Brown Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award goes to Jennifer Beth Bergner for her dissertation “Tracing Organic Complexity During Star and Planet Formation."

Here's a preview of the 236th AAS meeting, to be held jointly with the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division in Madison, Wisconsin, 31 May - 4 June 2020. Registration and abstract submission are now open!

The AAS Solar Physics Division, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, awards its George Ellery Hale Prize to Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University, Japan) and Karen Harvey Prize to Hui Tian (Peking University...

The grace period for those with outstanding dues balances ends this week! Don’t let your connection to the AAS lapse in 2020.

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.

Dr. Hell is being honored by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division for groundbreaking laboratory measurements necessary for accurate, reliable interpretation of high-resolution X-ray spectra from astronomical sources.