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Seb Falk Receives 2025 Osterbrock Book Prize | American Astronomical Society
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The AAS Historical Astronomy Division is pleased to present the 2025 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Seb Falk for his work The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (W. W. Norton, 2020).
on Sep 20
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Astropy Collaboration to Receive 2025 Berkeley Prize | American Astronomical Society
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The Astropy Collaboration will receive the 2025 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy for the creation of an open-source ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages written in the Python programming language.
on Sep 17
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Radboud Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship | American Astronomical Society
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Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, invites applications for the Radboud Excellence Fellowship. This postdoctoral fellowship is for a duration of 2 yrs (or longer in case of a part-time contract) and open to non-Dutch researchers based outside the Netherlands, who have no previous...
on Sep 5
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About COMPASSE The Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE) was established by AAS in …
on Aug 14
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Astrophysics and Technosignature Search | American Astronomical Society
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The Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center (PSETI) at Penn State University seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with Dr. Jason Wright to advance the field of SETI through theoretical and observational studies of Dyson Spheres in and beyond the Milky Way.
on Aug 6
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Sky & Telescope Editor in Chief | American Astronomical Society
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a prestigious scientific association whose mission is to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe as a diverse and inclusive astronomical community, has an immediate opening in their Cambridge, MA office for Editor in Chief of...
on Aug 5
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The Planetary Science Journal Publishes Its 1,000th Article | American Astronomical Society
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The Planetary Science Journal, an open-access publication owned by the AAS and its Division for Planetary Sciences, recently published its 1,000th article and received its second strong Journal Impact Factor.
on Jul 13
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“Nik” — The Zero in Vigesimal Maya Mathematics
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Presentation #336.03 in the session “Collaboration with Integrity: Partnerships with Indigenous Communities in the Americas and Polynesia”.
on Jul 10
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Deeper Insights into the Solar Eclipse Experience: Piloting Project AWE
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This paper discusses the potential for capturing the ineffable experience of totality using biometric measures and describes a pilot project undertaken during the Annular Solar Eclipse on October 14, 2023.
on Jun 24
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244th AAS Meeting | American Astronomical Society
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The 244th meeting of the AAS will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, 9-13 June 2024.
on Jun 24
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Lecturer in Extrasolar Planets | American Astronomical Society
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The School of Physics & Astronomy is seeking to recruit a Lecturer in Extrasolar Planets. We are looking for motivated individuals who develop and lead an independent research programme in astrophysics and deliver high quality, innovative teaching to our well-qualified undergraduate population.
on May 2
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The candidate is expected to play a leading role to strengthen our activities to understand the origin of life. The conditions under which life can emerge on (rocky) exoplanets is one of the key questions in astrophysics and astrobiology, with strong interdisciplinary links to physics,...
on Apr 9
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The following are a number of terms used to describe various aspects of solar eclipses. You’ll find many of them used throughout this website and will encounter others on other sites and in the media as we get closer and closer to the August 21, 2017, solar eclipse across America.
on Apr 8
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Inexpensive Homemade Safe Solar Viewers for Sunspot Monitoring and Solar Eclipse Viewing
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A Simple Method of Projecting the Solar Image for Group Viewing
on Apr 1
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Harvard’s DASCH Scanning Project is Now Complete | American Astronomical Society
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DASCH — the project to digitize Harvard’s astronomical photographic glass plate collection — is complete at long last. With this milestone comes a new website, StarGlass, and preview access to the next data release.
on Apr 1
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Harvard’s DASCH Scanning Project is Now Complete | American Astronomical Society
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DASCH — the project to digitize Harvard’s astronomical photographic glass plate collection — is complete at long last. With this milestone comes a new website, StarGlass, and preview access to the next data release.
on Mar 29
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How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely
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How to Use Solar Viewers | Indirect Viewing Methods | Do Solar Viewers Expire? | Cleaning Instructions | Welding Filters
on Mar 22
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John Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship | American Astronomical Society
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The John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship was created in 2006, in collaboration with Neta Bahcall, to provide an opportunity for early-career astronomers to gain experience in the world of science policy and to augment the advocacy programs of the society. The Bahcall Fellowship is currently...
on Mar 22
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With the April 8th North American total solar eclipse just over two weeks away, potentially unsafe eclipse glasses are polluting the marketplace. Buyer beware!
on Mar 22
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How to Shoot Solar-Eclipse Images & Videos
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A composite image of totality, shot from Svalbard in 2015.
on Feb 2
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Coming Soon: Job Register 4.0! | American Astronomical Society
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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.
on Dec 14, 2023
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White House Proposal for Space Mission Authorization | American Astronomical Society
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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.
on Nov 30, 2023
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Chandra Legacy Program: Call for White Papers | American Astronomical Society
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The goal of the Chandra Legacy Program is to generate crucial results that require Chandra's unique capabilities to break new scientific ground and/or complement new and far-reaching observations in other wavelength regimes.
on Nov 29, 2023
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AAS Quasquicentennial: Celebrating 125 Years in 2024 | American Astronomical Society
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2024 will mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the American Astronomical Society and the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Astronomical Journal. We will celebrate the positive impacts the Society has had and the impressive work our members have accomplished!
on Nov 1, 2023
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AAS Publishing Introduces #BlackSpaceWeek2023 Video Series | American Astronomical Society
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AAS Publishing is launching a special series of AAS Journal Author video chats in collaboration with Black in Astro for BlackSpaceWeek to highlight the work of several incredible Black astronomers.
on Oct 3, 2023