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Videos Available from the 246th AAS Meeting
Slidecasts of the plenary talks and prize lectures presented at the AAS 2025 summer meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, are now available online for all. aas.org/posts/news/2... #AAS246 🔭
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Here's a nice summary article on @space.com that I was interviewed for about the recent #AAS246 conference and the current budget uncertainty: www.space.com/astronomy/na...
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This is a great opportunity for
POSTDOCS WHO WERE DISPLACED FROM THEIR PREVIOUS JOBS FOR WHATEVER REASON
I met like 40 of you at #AAS246 earlier in June. You know what to do!
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The Catholic University of America: A New Approach to Stellar Burst Exploration Solves a Decades-Old Quest www.catholic.edu/all-stories/... #AAS246
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Seb standing in front of a blown up manuscript page with numbers on it
Seb standing in front of a PowerPoint slide with the cover of The Light Ages
Seb on one side with two screens behind
Seb receiving the Osterbrock Prize certificate from Kevin Krisciunas of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society
A few photos from my plenary lecture at #AAS246 in Anchorage, & the presentation of the Osterbrock Prize for #TheLightAges.
That's surely the biggest screen I've ever used – there were 3 of them! Great to see John Westwyk's work at super-scale 🤩 Why didn't I just stand behind the podium though 🙈
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#AAS246 Thank you to everyone who joined us in Anchorage for the 246th AAS meeting! It was an incredible week of science and we couldn’t have done it without you.
📅 #AAS247 will be held in Phoenix, AZ (4–8 Jan 2026). The call for proposals will open soon — stay tuned.
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#AAS246 Chambliss Student Award Winners
The AAS is pleased to announce the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award winners from the 246th AAS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, in June 2025. Congratulations, all! aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭
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#AAS246 Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's First Call for Proposals 📞📄
The first call for proposals is expected to be released in Fall 2025! Stay up to date with @nancyromansci.bsky.social and the Roman Science Support Center @ IPAC: roman.ipac.caltech.edu/page/call-fo...
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The Current Landscape for Public Policy and how YOU can make a difference Dara Norman and the AAS Public Policy Team (Colin Hamill, Roohi Dalal, Joel Parriott) 6/12/2025 American Astronomical Society
What Policy Looks Like at AAS AAS Mission Statement The mission of the American Astronomical Society is to enhance and share humanity's scientific understanding of the universe as a diverse and inclusive astronomical community. https://aas.org/about/governance/society-resolutions
What Policy Looks Like at AAS Strategic Priority 1: Address significant global issues that affect astronomy • Advocate for implementation of the Decadal Surveys Recommendations. • Advocate for STEM education, in coordination with Education Committee goals and initiatives. • Advocate for funding, programs, policies, and regulations that broadly benefit the discipline. • Establish and advocate policy and position points concerning outdoor ground-based lighting and protection of the full EM spectrum. • Establish and advocate policy and position points concerning the increasing satellite presence in Earth orbit. AAS Strategic Plan 2021-2026: https://aas.org/about/strategic-plan
And we'll wrap up my #AAS246 posts with the only plenary I got to on day 4: Public Policy Plenary: The Current Landscape for Science Policy and How YOU Can Make a Difference.
I have to be a little careful here because of my job, but I will recap what I can of what AAS leadership presented.
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Nicole Drakos stands at a podium. Above here is a large screen showing slides: Vera Rubin's rotation curve measurements gave us the first clear evidence that galaxies are embedded in massive, invisible dark matter halos. Image of Vera Rubin. Plot of rotational velocity vs. distance from center for a spiral galaxy. Kimberly Arcand, Nicole Drakos, Maddie Lucey, and Amruta Jaodand sit on stage.
Four women astronomers, Kimberly Arcand, Nicole Drakos, Maddie Lucey, and Amruta Jaodand sit on stage.
A cardboard display with a grid for holding the American Women Quarters. They are all empty except for Dr. Vera Rubin.
Closeup of the Dr. Vera Rubin quarter. An older Rubin is shown in profile. United States of America Quarter Dollar. Dr. Vera Rubin, Dark Matter.
Last thing for day 3 of #AAS246:
A panel discussion on the legacy of astronomer Vera Rubin, namesake of the soon-to-be-operational Rubin Observatory. And we were some of the first people to get our hands on the new Vera Rubin quarter, courtesy of the US Mint.
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Saavik Ford stands on stage behind a podium. Behind her is a giant screen with slides: Things in Disks: Towards a New Understanding of Galactic Nuclei, K.E. Saavik Ford.
And the final plenary lecture of #AAS246 day 3: Things in Disks: Towards a New Understanding of Galactic Nuclei by K.E. Saavik Ford.
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Seb Falk stands on stage. Behind him is a giant screen with a medieval illustration of the spheres of the heavens, with the Earth at the center, and a series of concentric rings for the Sun, Moon, Earth, planets, and the fixed stars.
Needed some sleep. Now I'm going to finish the AAS 246 recaps for real.
Next up on day 3 of #AAS246 a bit of history. The Osterbrock Book Prize Lecture: Where Are We? How Past Astronomers Found Their Place in the Universe — and on Earth by Seb Falk.
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The final day of #AAS246 included discussions about solar cycle research and the current landscape for science policy and advocacy. aasnova.org/2025/06/13/a... 🔭 @aas.org
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A person stands on stage behind a podium. Above them is a large screen with slides. Rubin Observatory Wednesday 11 June, 2025 AAS 245 Town Hall Anchorage
Rubin Observatory is almost ready! Join us for the big reveal on June 23! Participate in one of 200 global watch parties including Tucson, La Serena, and SLAC. Or just visit rubinobservatory.org on Monday June 23rd. Map showing points of watch parties, distributed across the world with the most points in North America and Europe.
Rubin First Photon: first on-sky data with the full system were taken on April 15, 2025.
We were (and still are) so happy! Screenshot of a Zoom meeting, featuring a room full of happy, smiling people. NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory personnel celebrate in the control room following the arrival of the first photon.
Back after a bit of a break exploring Anchorage. The conference is over, but now I have time to finish up my #AAS246 summaries.
Next on day 3 was the Rubin Observatory Town Hall.
Rubin is almost ready for science! They collected their first photons on April 15 and there was much rejoicing.
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In the #AAS246 Plenary Lecture, IPAC Senior Scientist and NExScI Deputy Director David Ciardi stepped up to the plate to discuss all things exoplanets 🪐
Ciardi took over for Sean Carey, IPAC Senior Scientist and NEO Surveyor Task Lead, who could no longer attend the meeting.
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#AAS246 isn't over yet!
We still have our #NASARoman poster session in the Exhibit Hall.
And don't forget to stop by the STScI and IPAC booths for some new, never-seen-before SWAG.
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Happy Thursday #AAS246! Today we have one last Roman session. Don't miss out!
1-2 pm Roman iPosters, Dena'ina CC, Exhibit Hall
Posters will cover: Proposals, APT, Nexus, simulation tools and science!
Follow us for updates about these posters!
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The bunny ears of a jellyfish galaxy, the journey of a 14th-century monk, and 35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope: all this and more on Day 3 of #AAS246. aasnova.org/2025/06/12/a... 🔭 @aas.org
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This image shows the exoplanet 14 Herculis c. The view is mostly black, with very faint red splotches in the central region of the image. At the center of the image, there is a black circle, and in the center of that, there is a star symbol representing a real star. This black circle blocks the light from the host star. To the lower right of the circle is a fuzzy bright orange circle, which is the exoplanet.
A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange has come into clearer view with #NASAWebb. One of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis—located 60 light-years away from Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy—have been successfully imaged. (1/6) #AAS246 🧵 🔭 🧪
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Astrobites at AAS 246: Day 3 Read on for our 3rd installment of AAS 246 coverage — Day 3 / Wednesday Composite Webb NIRCam image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, showing the locations of young starb...
#Current #Events #AAS #aas246
Origin | Interest | Match
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Check out today's iPosters at #AAS246! K. Chiboucas (
Gemini Observatory & NOIRLab), R. Brent Tully (U. of Hawaii), & E. Peng (NOIRLab) will be discussing star formation in different evolutionary stages from multiple perspectives! 🌟 ⏰ 9:00 - 10:00 am #astronomy
📷 @GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Woman in black and red talking in front of a slide about colliding black holes.
Saavik Ford making multiple generations of stellar mass black holes in AGN accretion disks. #AAS246.
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A woman in blue jeans, a gray shirt and a red ball cap standing in front of a mural pained on the side of a building that says 'Greetings from Alaska' with the northern lights painted into the picture, and various scenes of a bear catching salmon and an eagle flying over mountains and a glacier painted into the letters.
A dark mountain range with snow covering the tops of the mountains in the background, with a dense green forest in the mid ground, and a lake in the foreground. The mountains are reflected in the lake due to its clarity.
A woman at a podium addressing an audience with an image of people on a projector screen along with text that says "Why success requires diversity. (Pictured above: eclipse ambassadors from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific."
A woman standing on a lawn with green grass, between two telescopes that are looking at the sun, and a person looking through one of telescopes. There are several people in the background walking around.
I had a blast representing @astrosociety.org at #AAS246! Huge thanks to the @aas.org Education Committee and #AnchorageMuseum for putting on an incredible outreach event, in addition to the various special sessions I was invited to be a part of.
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Dimitri Mawet stands on stage. Behind him is a giant screen with slides. They feature two bears, one slightly larger than the other. Advancing Exoplanet Characterization: Five Years of High-Resolution Spectroscopy with KPIC by Dimitri Mawet David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy, Caltech Senior Research Scientist, JPL AAS 246, Anchorage AK, 12 June 2025
Drawing of JWST, crossed out. JWST-free.
Next plenary at #AAS246: Advancing Exoplanet Characterization: Five Years of High-Resolution Spectroscopy with KPIC by Dimitri Mawet.
Mawet included two bears on this title side, the big guy is JWST, little guy is ground-based observatories. They are friends, but this talk was JWST free zone.
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