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For 250 years, astronomy has transformed how humanity sees the cosmos — and ourselves. ✨Abstract submissions are now OPE...
05/13/2026

For 250 years, astronomy has transformed how humanity sees the cosmos — and ourselves. ✨

Abstract submissions are now OPEN for Astronomy@250 — a virtual conference celebrating the people, discoveries, technologies, cultures, and ideas that shaped astronomy in the United States.

From Indigenous sky knowledge and ancient timekeeping… to observatories, space missions, citizen science, and the future of space exploration…

We’re bringing together educators, researchers, communicators, artists, historians, futurists, and astronomy lovers to imagine where the next 250 years may lead.

🌌 5 conference themes
🛰️ Panels, workshops, and posters
📚 Opportunity for inclusion in commemorative ASP proceedings

Submit your abstract today! See link in bio.

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250 years of looking up.250 years of asking questions that changed who we are.For 250 years, astronomy in the United Sta...
04/21/2026

250 years of looking up.
250 years of asking questions that changed who we are.

For 250 years, astronomy in the United States has not only expanded our understanding of the universe, but has helped shape education, culture, and our collective sense of place in the cosmos.

As part of the America250, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s annual meeting later this summer will explore how astronomy has shaped not just what we know — but how we see ourselves in the universe.

📅 Save the dates: August 27 — 29
🔗 See link in bio to be part of the next chapter and join us in this moment of reflection and possibility.

NightSky

Artemis II has begun its 10-day journey to the Moon — a step toward humanity’s return, this time to stay.Yet even as we ...
04/02/2026

Artemis II has begun its 10-day journey to the Moon — a step toward humanity’s return, this time to stay.

Yet even as we reach outward, the sky itself grows more fragile — crowded above, constrained below.

Astronomy is not a luxury; it is how a species learns its place in the universe. To protect it is to protect curiosity itself.

To explore the cosmos while losing the night would be a profound contradiction. The future we seek must include both discovery and preservation.

“Threats to astronomy from above and below”,
Editorial,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02830-9

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