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Have expertise in #astronomy education that you'd like to share with the AAS community through a workshop? The AAS Education Committee is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 2027 funding cycle. Letters are due 24 April. aas.org/posts/news/2...
The Annie Jump Cannon Award is presented for outstanding research & promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. Know someone deserving? Submit nominations by 30 June (self-noms allowed). aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭
📷 AAS President Dara Norman & 2025 winner Maya Fishbach
![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
[alt text from NASA]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreid6rp25tpuxaceaziwiduvtsnbystj5s542tlmuhcstyuxyfaj7ve)
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!
View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it
"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.
The edge of space-time sitting on a table surrounded by other books in a bookstore setting
The release of The Edge of Space-Time is so close that some people in Canada have gotten their copies and some bookstores are already putting them out!!
Don’t forget that preorders really help! Preorder today!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?
Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞
It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it.
Your life is precious.
+1-877-565-8860
translifeline.org
All the news today caused the major outlets to forget that we are taking the first human flight to the moon tomorrow in >50 years! I think about all the wonder & inspiration that came from the Apollo and Voyager missions & how we are missing that now bc of all the terrible things happening. 🔭🚀
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. As we close out the 2026 iteration I will remind you that women’s health issues are underfunded and under-researched and many of us struggle for decades with no answers and no help.
5 days after my wedding last year I finally got mine…
Invitation graphic to the 2026 Rubin Community Workshop at SLAC happening July 27-31, 2026. Register by June 22 at ls.st/rubin2026.
Registration is ✨OPEN✨ for the 2026 Rubin Community Workshop!
Join us July 27–31 at SLAC (250 spots) or virtually.
With Data Preview 1 out and LSST Camera data starting to flow, it’s an exciting time for NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory science! 🔭🧪
🔗 project.lsst.org/meetings/rubin2026/
ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY FOR THIS (PAID!) FELLOWSHIP!
A decade ago, I did make a reading list to help scientists get started! 🧪
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It's amazing, I'm obsessed. Hopefully one day I'll be able to find this somewhere!
If you want an accessible book that introduces the cosmos through visual art, check out Painting the Cosmos by Nia Imara, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz. All the images are in color! 🔭🧪 #BookSky #BlackInAstro
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Painti...
TLDR: Your high school GPA is a much better predictor of college success and graduation than your SAT score.
OMG??! I love this and NEED this! Do you know if they sell this 😭
#AAS248 The Society's FAMOUS Travel Grants program helps members from historically underrepresented groups attend AAS meetings. Grant requests for the summer meeting (14-18 June 2026) are due by 16 April. aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭
With Earth Week just over a month away, this year’s theme is "Green telescopes for the pale blue dot": how can we build and design the instrumentation and hardware that we use every day in a sustainable manner? Save the dates and join the conversation! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
A full disk view of the earth taken by NASA's GOES 16 satellite on the vernal Equinox, showing a shadow dividing the disk into two. The right side of the Earth, including South America and the Atlantic Ocean, is sunlit, while the left side including North America is in shadow. Credit: NOAA/NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/night-sky-network/embracing-the-equinox/
Happy vernal equinox! You may know this as one of 2 dates when the day and night are roughly equal length, or as the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern.
But to astronomers, the vernal equinox has an additional fun significance... 🧪🔭 (1/8)
My PhD advisor, Professor Yuk Yung, has passed away.
The suddenness of this - I had only become aware of his illness a week ago - is shocking and it’s surreal that he’s gone.
www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...
A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: • by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, • outside of classroom settings • aimed at the public If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."
Attention Science Communicators!
We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences.
Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Moiya smiling and holding a copy of mothers of invention. The cover is orange with black trim and the title is in white. Broken pieces of ceramic depict inventions like the light bulb and fire.
My first time holding my new book!! 🥹🤓
You can preorder MOTHERS OF INVENTION to tell my publisher I deserve a big marketing push 🙏🏽
It’s Friday night!
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
My 1st first-author paper has been submitted to ApJL and is available on arXiv!
We found that elevated water vapor abundances in Mars-like exoplanet atmospheres suppress abiotic oxygen accumulation via CO2 photolysis by an order of magnitude relative to past studies. 🧪🔭🪐
arxiv.org/abs/2603.11017
Collage of participants from previous LSST-DA data science fellowship program years.
📢 Applications are open for the 2026 LSST Discovery Alliance Data Science Fellowship! 🔭🧪
Learn the skills needed to work with the huge datasets from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey.
Apply by Mar 27: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/data-science-fellowship
The @aas.org is conducting a search for the AAS Editor in Chief, who is responsible for developing and implementing a long-term editorial strategy for the Society’s journals portfolio. See this link for more details of this full-time position and the application process.
journals.aas.org/eicsearch
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