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A multi-disciplinary team recently came together online to discuss the application of sonification in astronomy, focusing on the effective use of sound for scientific discovery and for improving accessibility to astronomy research and education.
The annual Fast Radio Bursts conference was again held entirely online this year, from 28 July to 5 August 2021. It included plenary talks, posters, lightning talks, late-breaking news and discussion sessions.
Held in Suzhou, Jiangsu province of China in June 2021, the conference served to unite a wide community of planetary science within China, and hopes to become one of the world’s premier planetary science conferences in the future.
The European Astronomical Society awarded its most prestigious prizes during its annual meeting held from 28 June to 2 July 2021. In a way similar to last year, the meeting was entirely virtual.
By focusing on the topic of stellar dynamics and stellar populations of the Milky Way and its siblings, a recent virtual meeting aimed at connecting both fields, each of which brings unique perspectives to understanding how disk galaxies form and evolve.
