🔭 DPS is seeking enthusiastic volunteers (including social media volunteers!) to assist with the meeting in October. We welcome applications from undergrads, grads, postdocs & and local amateur astronomers. Apply by Friday, 21 August: www.cognitoforms.com/AAS5/DPS58Vo... 🔭 #DPS2026

🎥 Do small black holes "downsize" like big ones do? Wen-Juan Liu (Yunnan Observatories, CAS) discusses her study of 930 intermediate-mass black hole AGNs from SDSS DR17 — extending IMBH redshift coverage to z≤0.57 & revealing a "downsizing" trend in accretion activity. youtu.be/XuDQcKP-6KQ 🔭

Thinking about grad school? AAS is hosting a free Virtual Grad Admissions Fair! 📅 Wed, 16 Sept, 3–5 pm ET 💻 100% virtual & FREE 🎓 20+ depts including Columbia, Michigan, San Diego State Registration is limited to AAS undergrad & SPS affiliate members. Register by 9 Sept: aas.org/meetings/gra... 🔭

⏰ Last call! Special Session, Workshop, and Town Hall proposals for #AAS249 are due TODAY — Monday, 3 August, 11:59 pm ET. Have an idea for the program? Submit it before time runs out. aas.org/meetings/aas... 🔭

Are you ready for it? Our virtual conference, that is! Registration is now open and you don't want to miss our five programming tracks, opening night event, prestigious speaker lineup, and celebrating 250 years of astronomy in the United States and beyond. 🚀🌎 1/3

🔭 New video! Kamber Schwarz (MPIA) discusses observations of H¹³CO⁺ & C¹⁸O toward 3 Class 0 protostars, finding ionization rates 100s–1000s× higher than the diffuse ISM — evidence that ionization chemistry is most efficient in the earliest protostellar stage. youtu.be/STshrLryUkg

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#AAS249 Special Session, Workshop, and Town Hall proposals are due Monday, 3 August by 11:59 pm ET. AAS meetings feature a variety of sessions and content, and we rely on proposals from the community to build the meeting program. aas.org/meetings/aas...

ALMA Ambassadors Program for Cycle 14 The North American Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Science Center is accepting applications for the ALMA Ambassadors Program, with a deadline of 2 October 2026. aas.org/posts/news/2...

🔭 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio (UNAM) discusses his paper on the first ab initio electron temperature model from microscopic plasma simulations for GR radiative transfer — better matching 86 GHz GMVA jet observations & highlighting magnetic reconnection's role in electron heating. youtu.be/I4sw9IsIQ_0

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The list keeps growing! 24 departments have already signed up for the AAS Virtual Graduate Admissions Fair on Wednesday, 16 September. Is your program on the list? Registration closes Tuesday, 11 August. 🔭 aas.org/meetings/gra... #AASGradFair #Astronomy

🔭 #AAS249 Still thinking about that session idea? Here's your nudge. Special Session, Workshop, and Town Hall proposals are due Monday, 3 August by 11:59 pm ET. aas.org/meetings/aas...

🔭 New AAS Journal Author Series video! Julien de Wit (MIT) & Andy Rivkin (JHU/APL) discuss their JWST observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 — the faintest NEO ever detected (V∼30.5!). Result: a 2032 lunar impact is ruled out, miss distance 22,900±800 km. 🔗 youtu.be/PCdqIf7zgLI

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AAS has submitted comments on the OMB Proposal titled “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.” Our comments can be found here: aas.org/posts/news/2... Please contact your members of Congress and encourage them to take action against the proposed rule: aas.org/omb-congress

New AAS Journal Author Series 🔭 Shravan Vengalil Menon & Kun Hu (WashU) on a subtle Penrose-like signature near spinning black hole ergospheres — disk reflection can fake a power-law component even without a corona. Spectral/polarimetric clues could reveal it. youtu.be/hts9uIWsUTg #TheGoodStuff

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Got an idea for a Special Session, Workshop, or Town Hall at #AAS249? Now's the time to pitch it. Help shape the program for our January meeting (joint w/ HAD) in Salt Lake City. Submit proposals by Monday, 3 August at 11:59 pm ET. Details: aas.org/meetings/aas... 🔭

🎥 New AAS Journals Author Series! Sean Terry (UMD/NASA Goddard) discusses his HST imaging survey of the Milky Way's bulge — overlapping with the upcoming Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. A legacy dataset boosting exoplanet science for years to come. 🔭 youtu.be/xwdk4NElo_c

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✨ FIRST-EVER AAS Virtual Graduate Admissions Fair ✨ Don't miss out — confirm your department/unit's interest by 10 July and join the growing list of participating organizations! 📅 Wednesday, 16 September | 3:00–5:00 pm ET 💵 Registration: $500 aas.org/aas-virtual-... 🔭

New AAS Journal Author Series video! Srinivasan Raghunathan (UC Davis) unveils the deepest tSZ maps ever made — a 9.3σ measurement of the tSZ power spectrum from SPT data, shedding light on cluster feedback and the intracluster medium. 🔭 youtu.be/5zF7oWZ954I #Astronomy #TheGoodStuff

AAS Journal Author Series: Srinivasan Raghunathan on 2026ApJ..1002L..22R

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Space Telescope Science Institute: NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

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🔭 AAS has partnered with @apsphysics.aps.org and other organizations to develop a tool to help you submit unique, personalized comments on harmful proposed changes to federal grants. Please submit a comment by 13 July! www.aps.org/initiatives/...

🔭 The 58th Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting is happening in Spokane, Washington! 1 Jul: Hartmann Student Travel Grant deadline 1 Jul: Underrepresented Minority (URM) Communities in Planetary Science Travel Grant deadline 30 Jul: Late abstract deadline aas.org/meetings/dps58

✨ AAS Virtual Graduate Admissions Fair ✨ We’re excited to announce that the AAS plans to host its first-ever virtual graduate admissions fair on Wednesday, 16 September, 3:00–5:00 pm ET! Confirm your department/unit’s interest by 10 July. Registration fee: $500. aas.org/aas-virtual-... 🔭

🔭 Every year the AAS brings volunteers to DC to advocate for their science and the priorities of the astronomical science community with members of Congress. Be an advocate and sign up for Congressional Visits Day (CVD) on 14–15 September. Deadline: 5 July by 11:59 pm ET aas.org/applications...

🔭 Black Space Week 2026: Final AAS Journals collab video Zoe Hacksaw (UT Austin) discusses a remarkable system hosting the most massive known stellar-origin black hole & the most metal-poor star yet found orbiting a black hole —offering new clues to how such rare binaries form. youtu.be/MWjXuvNK3hM

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🔭 Enter the Royal Society Publishing 2026 Photo Competition This annual competition, which includes an #astronomy category, celebrates the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. Deadline: 14 August. royalsociety.org/journals/pub... @royalsocietypublishing.org

#AAS248 The 248th AAS meeting has come to a close, and we can't thank you enough for helping to make this meeting a success! While the week in Pasadena may be over, we'll continue sharing photos, videos & highlights from an incredible week of science. See you in Salt Lake City for #AAS249. 🔭

🔭 Join us 9–14 August in Baltimore, Maryland, for the 57th meeting of the AAS Solar Physics Division (SPD). 📅 Submit late abstracts by 7 July at 11:59 pm ET. 👉 Register by 7 July to lock in discounted rates. 🏨 Book your hotel by 17 July to secure best available rates. aas.org/meetings/spd57

Last week at the @aas.org Summer Meeting, our Senior Astronomy Education Specialist Theresa Summer, presented both a poster about our work with the California College Astronomy Clubs on our survey/last Monday's focus group, and a talk about the Astro Society's blind & low-vision resources.

Congrats to Isidro Pena, an undergraduate research assistant at SSL who works on the @cosi-explorer.bsky.social! Pena was one of the undergraduate winners of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award poster competition at the 248th meeting of the @aas.org! 🙌🎉🧪🔭 aas.org/posts/news/2...

Are you an astronomy graduate student interested in science communication? Apply for the AAS Media Fellowship by this Friday, 26 June! More details about the position here: aasnova.org/2026/04/08/a... 🔭

AAS Media Fellowship Now Open for Applications

Are you an astronomy graduate student who’s interested in science communication? Apply for the AAS Media Fellowship by June 26!

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