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FILTER RESULTS ►American Astronomical Society Criticizes NASA Planetary Science Budget
The AAS made a strong critique of proposed cuts to NASA's Planetary Science program today.
Scientists and advocates once again seek restoration of NASA planetary funding
The Planetary Society released this week a statement prepared “in collaboration” with the planetary sciences divisions of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) about the current state of NASA’s planetary sciences program. Show More Summary
Professor Ken Freeman wins the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
ANU is celebrating another astronomical win: Professor Ken Freeman from The Australian National University has been awarded the American Astronomical Society’s top prize. The prestigious Henry Norris Russell Lectureship was awarded to...Show More Summary
A tale of two congresspeople
On Wednesday evening, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) hosted a “Space Science and Public Policy” event as part of its conference this week in Long Beach, California. The featured speakers were two members of Congress: Reps. Judy Chu (D-CA) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Their comments on policy issues for space science and related issues were [...]
Report from AAS: Exoplanets (and exo-asteroids, and exo-comets) everywhere
This year's American Astronomical Society meeting featured tons and tons of news on exoplanets. They're everywhere! And not just planets, but also asteroids, comets, and more....
"Space Fans" Hangout Wednesday Jan 9 1500 PT / 2300 UT: me & Mike Brown on Planets, Pluto (not the same), Asteroids, Near Earth Objects, Life the Universe and Everything
Join me, Mike "Plutokiller" Brown, Mario Livio, Jason Kalirai, and others in a Space Fan Hangout broadcast from the American Astronomical Society meeting happening this week in Long Beach, California.
Astronomers grapple with budgetary uncertainty
This week, about 3,000 astronomers are gathered in Long Beach, California, for the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Just one day into the four-day meeting, there have already been major announcements, ranging from a new set of potential extrasolar planets found by Kepler to some of the first results from the NuSTAR x-ray [...]
Kudos To Kepler – Space Telescope Has Discovered 2740 New Candidate Planets
Today marked the commencement of the 221st American Astronomical Society meeting, and members of the Kepler Space Telescope team had an exciting number to share: 461. That’s the number of new candidate exoplanets found by the KeplerShow More Summary
Planetary Society Hangout: Jan 10th, 2013 - AAS Coverage with Astronomer Meg Schwamb
Join Casey Dreier and Emily Lakdawalla as they are joined by Dr. Meg Schwamb from Yale University. They will discuss the latest announcements from the American Astronomical Society 2013 conference and Dr. Schwamb's research in outer solar system bodies.
Coverage of the 2013 AAS Conference in Long Beach
The American Astronomical Society's 221st meeting is happening this week in Long Beach, California, and the Planetary Society will be there.
DPS 2012, Monday: Icy moons and a four-star exoplanet
In the first full day of the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, I listened to scientific sessions on icy worlds and on an exoplanet in a four-star system.
Bringing you the latest science from the 2012 Division of Planetary Sciences meeting
I've just arrived in Reno, Nevada for the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Here's an introduction and a few useful links; stay tuned the rest of the week for new science from all over the solar system and beyond.
Weinberg on the Crisis of Big Science
Steven Weinberg has a new article in The New York Review of Books on The Crisis of Big Science, which is based on a talk he gave this past January at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin (for some … Continue reading ?
National conference on communicating science coming to Tucson
With the COPUS conference just wrapped up, this announcement caught my attention. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), in partnership with the American Geophysical Union and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, has opened...Show More Summary
A planet boils away under its blow-torch star
There’s been a lot of exoplanet news lately! Part of that is due to the American Astronomical Society meeting recently — in fact, there was so much I wrote four articles just from that (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, and Part 4). This next story wasn’t released at the meeting, yet may honestly [...]
Smith: Congress supports the JWST
On the final day of last week’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Austin, Texas, attendees to made it to the morning plenary got a bonus speaker: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), a member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. In his brief comments he tried to assure the astronomers in the [...]
Cosmic Pictures from the AAS
The semi-annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society was held in Austin recently, and many space images were shared. Dr. Phil Plait was not at the meeting, so the other astronomers sent him pictures, which he put into a gallery at Bad Astronomy. Each has a link to more information about the picture. The image [...]
NASA’s new science chief talks about research, synergy, and JWST
When John Grunsfeld took the podium Wednesday at the NASA Town Hall meeting at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Austin, Texas, he noted he was just into the sixth day of his new job as NASA’s associate administrator for science, and he had spent three of those days at the Austin conference. That [...]
Milky Way Packed With Billions Of Stars, Study Suggests
WASHINGTON -- The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber... Read more: Exoplanet, Video, American Astronomical Society, Milky Way, Planet, Extraterrestrial, Kepler, Galaxy, Science News
Discovery of the smallest exoplanets: The Barnard's star connection
The discovery of the three smallest planets yet orbiting a distant star, which was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has an unusual connection to Barnard's star, one of the Sun's nearest neighbors. read more
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