The Astro Society

🌙 Bring a little more Moon joy to your 2027! 🌙 Support our new crowdfunding campaign at the $50 level and receive a package of 10 beautiful 2027 Moon Calendar Posters featuring the Moon’s phases and eclipses throughout the year. Just want a digital download? Only $5 😊 (1/2)

Are you ready for us, NYC? 🌃 Our team is time-traveling this weekend, back to the Apollo era! We'll be at the TWA Hotel ✈ October 23-25 as guests of the Mission 60s event, celebrating the inspiration that sent us to the Moon in the 1960s, and again today with the Artemis program. 🌔

Relive the era that launched us to the moon! 🚀 We are celebrating Apollo, Artemis, aviation, & space exploration just 10 days from now at the Mission 60s event at the fashionable and historic TWA Hotel on the grounds of JFK airport from October 23-25, 2026. ✈

Joining in the fun are Apollo-era flight directors, mission control engineers, astronaut, Star Trek luminaries, scientists, and educators! MISSION:60s bridges the Apollo program with NASA's current Artemis program — celebrating nearly 60 years of space history in one weekend. 🖖

Relive the era that launched us to the moon! 🚀 We are celebrating Apollo, Artemis, aviation, & space exploration just 10 days from now at the Mission 60s event at the fashionable and historic TWA Hotel on the grounds of JFK airport from October 23-25, 2026. ✈

New Astro Beat episode now live & just in time for spooky season!🧛👻 White dwarfs can steal gas from companion stars or collide with fellow stellar corpses & under the right conditions, detonate as Type Ia supernovae. These explosions helped us discover that the universe’s expansion is accelerating✨

Happy #WorldSpaceWeek from the Astro Society! WSW is an international celebration of science + tech, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The United Nations General Assembly declared WSW will be held each year from October 4-10, & 2026's theme is Rocket Revolution🚀🚀🚀

Congrats to our Senior Astronomy Education Specialist, Theresa Summer!🤩 Theresa was named to the 2026 cohort of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program & she will travel to Chile and receive extensive training about the instruments, science, and data from these world-class observatories.

📣Upcoming Workshop!📣 A Thousand Years of Looking Up: The Skies Between Ptolemy and Copernicus 🌌Join us for an engaging workshop exploring the remarkable contributions of astronomers during the Islamic Golden Age. 🔭Led by Nada AlHaddad (UNH) & Shanil Virani (Astro Society), this workshop...

...highlights thinkers such as al-Biruni, Ibn al-Haytham, & Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and how their work transformed & shaped astronomy. Designed for formal/informal educators, this workshop introduces participants to Al Jauza, an educational platform sharing the rich heritage of the Islamic world.

We're hosting Starfleet royalty and we couldn't be more excited! Save the Date - November 6 at Chabot Space & Science Center There are only 100 tickets available and we want you to have a chance to spend the evening with us and Kate. Keep an eye on our social or sign up for our mailing list 📲

The stars are part of our stories and Hispanic heritage is part of the story of space.✨🌌 This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the many ways the cosmos connects science, culture, and identity. Long before modern spaceflight, Indigenous civilizations—including the Maya and Mexica (Aztec)⤵️

...developed traditions of skywatching that shaped calendars, architecture, & everyday life. From the celestial imagery of La Luna, El Sol, & La Estrella in Mexican lotería to astronauts Ellen Ochoa & José Hernández reaching orbit, the sky continues to inspire discovery and new possibilities. 🚀

Some behind the scenes pics from our CEO Hakeem's StarTalk episode! Thanks so much to @neildegrassetyson.com for the fun cosmic discussion - can't wait to see Hakeem on future Star Talk episodes 💫☀️😎 If you want more from Hakeem, a new episode of Astro Beat dropped yesterday! More info below ⤵️

What happens when a black hole wakes up and starts firing “cosmic bullets”? 👀🌌 In our newest AstroBeat episode, Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi explores how XRISM reveals these powerful outflows and what they could mean for the Sculptor Galaxy

Join @aussiastronomer.bsky.social, for “The Search for Earth 2.0: Why We Think It Exists, and How We’re Going to Find It.” Explore the surprising worlds we’ve already discovered and the ambitious telescope plans that could help us find a rocky planet like ours around a Sun-like star.

Happy Equinox! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are celebrating the Autumnal Equinox 🍂, the first day of fall! More than just pumpkin spice lattes and changing leaves, the equinox marks the beginning of astronomical autumn - when the length of day and night are roughly equal around the world.

One of our proudest and best-known traditions over our 137 years is the ASP Awards, in which we recognize individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach each year. We are pleased to announce our 2026 award winners, listed in the thread below!

💫Las Cumbres Award: Michael Overacker, Retired firefighter & pro photographer; Master Observer, Astronomical League 💫Emmons Award: Michael A. Reid, Associate Professor, U of Toronto 💫Maria & Eric Muhlmann Award: Dr. Shelley A. Wright, Professor in the Depy of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UC San Diego

One of our proudest and best-known traditions over our 137 years is the ASP Awards, in which we recognize individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach each year. We are pleased to announce our 2026 award winners, listed in the thread below!

Have you checked out our new Astro Beat YouTube channel? Science explainers from our CEO, Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi 💫 Our 16-minute video "If There's Water, Is There Life?" explores new evidence of Mars' ocean past. This has bigger significance, not just in our solar system but across the galaxy! 🪐

Happy #StarTrekDay! 60 years ago today, Star Trek warped into our living rooms, changing TV & space history. This influential franchise continues to inspire new generations of space explorers, from astronomers to astronauts to astrophysicists, shaping our space community for the better. 🔭🚀

The Astro Society supports an inclusive vision of the future - we need everyone to create a spacefaring civilization, and the Star trek principle of IDIC, or "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations," is central to building a presence among the stars. 💫

Our conference was epic! We're still processing the amazing conversations, presentations, & speaker wisdom from last week. Our sincere gratitude to our 2026 sponsors for their support and partnership. Check out their exciting work & we can't wait to see you in 2027 for another stellar event!💫🔭

NASA Science Activation StreamAlive American Astronomical Society (AAS) DarkSky Startorialist Celestron, LLC. Chabot Space & Science Center Alternative Technologies NSF NOIRLab Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc Tau Immersive LLC Astronomy for Equity American Institute of Physics (more below!)