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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.

Balloting for the next election of AAS leadership opened on 18 December and will close on 1 February 2024. Every vote is important. Please cast your ballot today!

The upcoming New Orleans meeting will be jam-packed with interesting sessions covering all aspects of astronomy. In this post, we highlight some of the policy-related sessions that you can look forward to attending...

Click here to see a list of education-related events and sessions at AAS 243 in New Orleans. Please join these events!

We are excited to announce that we are nearing the release of a completely redesigned and modernized Job Register. Here is what to expect and look forward to in the upgrade.

Are you involved in admissions, hiring, or review in your department? You are invited to use this new research-backed toolkit on equitable evaluation rubrics, produced by the Research Hub of the Inclusive Graduate...

Don't miss out! Renew your AAS membership before the end of the year to receive a 15% discount on your share of the author charges for a paper published in an AAS journal in 2024.

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.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The December 2023 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Stephen P. Maran writes about the 50th anniversary of the extravehicular activity (EVA; “space walk”) to photograph a comet from space.

The 32nd International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly will be held on 6–15 August 2024 in South Africa. Abstract submissions and grant applications are open from 30 November 2023 to 1 March 2024.

At its recent meeting, the National Society of Black Physicists chose the winners of the AAS-sponsored Beth Brown Memorial Awards for oral and poster presentations.

The White House recently released a proposal for legislation on commercial space authorization and regulation. Here we take a look at the proposal and highlight what it would mean for astronomy.

We invite AAS members and AAS 243 meeting attendees to collaborate with us to prepare the New Orleans community for the upcoming solar eclipse via a free public outreach event on Saturday, 6 January 2024.