Acknowledgments

Advisory Council in 2023

Bruce Carney
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Edna DeVore
SETI Institute (retired)

Lynn D. Dierking
Oregon State University and Institute for Learning Innovation

Timothy Ferris
University of California, Berkeley

Richard Fienberg
American Astronomical Society

Alexei Filippenko
University of California, Berkeley

Christopher Ford
Prezi Inc.

Andrew Fraknoi
Foothill College (retired)

Catharine D. Garmany
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (retired)

Marc Gineris
Incyte Capital Holdings, Dallas, Texas

Mary Kay Hemenway
University of Texas at Austin (retired)

Jim Hesser
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and Strategic Advisor, Herzberg Astronomy and
Astrophysics Programs, National Research Council of Canada

Catherine Langridge
Presidio Trust

Gordon Myers
IBM (retired)

Schyleen Qualls
Arkeon Entertainment & Arkeon Education

Ron Rosano
Astronomy Educator, Virgin Galactic Spaceflight Participant

Jeffrey D. Rosendhal
NASA (retired) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at George Mason University

Wayne Rosing
Las Cumbres Observatory

Dennis Schatz
Pacific Science Center

Constance Walker
National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory

Al Whaley
Internet Travel Network (retired)

Meet the Team

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Publications of the ASP
Jeff Mangum, Editor (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Daniel G. Fabricant, Associate Editor (Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Acknowledgments
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Ford  

Project Manager
Joycelin Craig 

Editor
Joycelin Craig
Pablo Nelson

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Mando Daniel 

Image Credits (top to bottom)

Welcome:
Main Image I Solar Eclipse – Digital artist composite
Credit: Mando Daniel

Finances:
Main Image I Uranus
Taken from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Includes
14 of the planet’s 27 moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Juliet, Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Ariel, Miranda, Bianca, and Portia
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Acknowledgments:
Main Image I An orbital sunrise
Orbital sunrise begins illuminating Earth's atmosphere as the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station orbited 266 miles over the Indian Ocean
Credit: NASA

Eclipse Ambassadors:
Main Image I 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Composite
This composite image of seventeen images shows the progression of a total solar eclipse at the NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Credit: (NASA/Jordan Salkin)

Eclipse Stars:  
Main Image I Total Solar Eclipse
Credit: Brian Kruse - Powell, Ohio, April 8, 2024

Learn @ASP:
Main Image I Pierced Canadarm2 of the International Space Station 
Pierced Canadarm2 of the International Space Station in front of Earth captured on 2 December 2023 by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen
Credit: (©ESA/ Andreas Mogensen)

Summer Symposium:
Main Image I Flight support equipment
Flight support equipment is pictured descending toward the Earth's atmosphere after being jettisoned from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The flight hardware secured a pair of roll-out solar arrays inside SpaceX Dragon cargo ship’s trunk during its ascent to orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station in November 2022. The jettisoned support equipment drifted safely away from the station and will eventually harmlessly burn up in the atmosphere with no chance for recontacting the space station
Credit: NASA (Jan. 31, 2023)

Publications:
Main Image I Waxing Gibbous Moon
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above a cloudy Western Europe.
Credit: NASA (February 21, 2024)

Figure 1. A schematic illustration of the magnitude of the brightness differential between the Sun and a hot, young exo-Jupiter in the NIR and the Sun and a reflected light Jupiter in the optical. The brightness differential for a young Jupiter analog is ∼10−6, comparable to the brightness differential between a lighthouse and a firefly. Once a Jupiter-like planet has radiated most of the energy of formation and no longer glows brightly in the infrared, this differential drops to 10−9, akin to the brightness differential between a lighthouse and a single bioluminescent alga cell. 

From “An Introduction to High Contrast Differential Imaging of Exoplanets and Disks” by Kate Follette, 2023, PASP 135, 093001.

ASP Conference Series Volume #533© 2023 The Astronomical Society of the Pacific

2023 ASP Awards:
Main Image I Godzilla Nebula
This colorful image shows a nebula – a cloud of gas and dust in space – captured by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope located is in the constellation Sagittarius, along the plane of the Milky Way, which was as part of Spitzer's GLIMPSE Survey (short for Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire). With a little imagination, you might be able to see the outlines of Godzilla. Stars in the upper right (where this cosmic Godzilla's eyes and snout would be) are an unknown distance from Earth but within our galaxy. Located about 7,800 light-years from Earth, the bright region in the lower left (Godzilla's right hand) is known as W33. When viewed in visible light, this region is almost entirely obscured by dust clouds. But infrared light (wavelengths longer than what our eyes can perceive) can penetrate the clouds, revealing hidden regions like this one.
Credit:  NASA/JPL-Caltech (October 25, 2021)

Our Donors:
Main Image I Aurora
An aurora intersects Earth's airglow beneath a starry sky in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea
Credit: NASA (September 25, 2023)

Ways to Give:
Main Image I Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University), Tea Temim (Princeton University), Ilse De Looze (UGent); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) – April 7, 2023