Astronomical Newsletters

The following list purports to include free Newsletters of interest to the astronomical community and is kept up-to-date (somewhat) by Sarah Stevens-Rayburn (ST ScI).  Titles known to have ceased publication prior to 1990 are specifically excluded (but are likely to be found in the Union List of Astronomical Serials).  Comments, criticisms, additions, and/or corrections should be sent to Sarah.


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Title: A Peculiar Newsletter: Newsletter of the IAU Working Group on Ap and related stars
From: IAU Working Group on Ap and Related Stars
Format: web
Dates: #24 (October 1995) to (#44, Nov. 2005)
Notes: Issued in paper as: A Peculiar Newsletter: communications of the European Working Group on CP stars, through #22 (1992), from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg.
Status: current

Title: AAO Newsletter
From: Anglo-Australian Observatory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1977) to date ( #111, Feb. 2007)
Status: current

Title: AAS Newsletter [see note under Status]
From: American Astronomical Society
Format: paper; some non-current issues available electronically
Dates: #1 (1979) to date (#132, Oct. 2006)
Status: current; Since the Newsletter is distributed as a benefit of membership in the AAS, current issues will not be posted.

Title: AAS Committee on the Status of Women weekly issues
From: aaswomen@aas.org
Format: email
Date:  1991(?) to date (Jan. 2007)
Notes: Archive available; title varies: CSWA women's issues 2-13-92 - 4-30-92
Status: current

Title: AAS job register
From: American Astronomical Society
Format: paper, web, and ftp
Dates: current issue (Jan. 2007) on web; ads back through 2001 are also available
Status: current

Title: AAS Sigmua Newsletter
From: AAS working group on astronomical software
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1982)-#7 (1986)
Status: temporarily ceased 1986; cessation confirmed 5-27-98

Title: Active Galaxies Newsletter
From: Rob Beswick, Astronomy Group, University of Manchester
Format: email and web 
Dates: #1 (October 1996) to date (#119, Feb. 2007)
Status: current

Title: ADC Electronic News
From: Astronomical Data Center/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Format: formerly, e-mail and web
Dates: v.1, #1 (April 1992) to v.11,#3 (September 2002)
Status: ceased

Title: ADS: Astrophysics Data System
From: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (April 1993)
Status: only one pub'd per ADS, 5-23-98

Title: African Skies
From: Working Group on Space Sciences in South Africa
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (May 1997) to #9 (July 2005)
Status: current

Title: AGB Newsletter: an electronic publication dedicated to stellar evolution on the asymptotic giant branch and beyond
From: Jacco van Loon and Albert Zijlstra, eds.
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: 0 (February 1994) to date (#117, Feb . 2007)
Status: current

Title: AIPSletter
From: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Format: paper , e-mail, and web
Dates: v.2, #4 (1982) to date (v.26 #2, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: AIPS++ newsletter
From: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Format:  e-mail and web
Dates: February 1998 to December 2002
Status: status unknown

Title: Airborne Astronomy Flyer: a semi-annual newsletter for the airborne astronomy community
From: NSI Technology Services, Moffett Federal Airfield, CA
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, (January 1995)
Status: unknown, only one rec'd; not at ST ScI

Title: ALA (Astronomia Latino Americana) : boletin electronico de enlace y difusion
From: ala@carina.astro.ugto.mx
Format: email and web
Dates: #1 (November 1995) to #12, February 2001
Status: ceased per editor 5/05

Title: Antarctic Astrophysics
From: Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica/Yerkes Observatory
Format: Paper
Dates: #1 (1992) to #7 (August 1995)
Status: unknown, probably ceased

Title: ASA Newsletter
From: Astronomical Society of Australia
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (?) to date (#26, Dec. 2002)
Status: ceased per note on website, Feb. 2006

Title: ASCA News: news from the ASCA Guest Facility
From: NASA/GSFC
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (December 1993) to #5 (April 1997)
Status: unknown

Title: Astrobiology Magazine
From: NASA
Format: web
Dates: Nov. 2000-(daily)

Title: Astronews : Newsletter of the ESA Astrophysics Division
From: European Space Agency
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1986) to #42 (Sept./Oct. 2000)
Status: subsumed into Space Science News

Title: ATNF News
From: CSIRO; subscription requests to Newsletter@atnf.csiro.au
Format: paper and web (Oct. 2000 forward)
Dates: #1 (1982) to date (#60, Oct. 2006)
Notes: #1-10 called AT Newsletter, #11-24 ATNF Newsletter
Status: current

Title: AXAF News
From: AXAF Science Center, Harvard University
Format: paper and web
Date: #1 (1993) to #5, December 1997
Status: continued by Chandra News

Title: BARS Newsletter (barred and ringed spirals)
From: knapen@star.herts.ac.uk
Format: web
Dates: #1 (March 1996) to date (#8, June 1997)
Status: publication delayed, per editor 5-23-98

Title: BBSAG Bulletin   (Eclipsing Binary Observers Section of the Swiss Astronomical Society)
From: R. Diethelm
Format: web
Dates: #001 (February 5, 1972) to #128, October 1, 2002
Status: ceased publication; subsequent results appear in the IBVS

Title: Be Star Newsletter
From: Georgia State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy and University of Virginia
Format: paper, e-mail, and  web
Dates: #1 (1980) to date (#38, Sept. 2006)
Status current

Title: Blazar Times : a research Newsletter dedicated to the BL Lac and blazar phenomena
From: Travis Rector
Format: e-mail and web archive of select issues
Dates: #1 (July 1998) to date (#66, February 2005)
Status: Instead of a monthly newsletter, contributions will be sent as a "rapid release" service to subscribers within 1-2 working days after receipt.

Title: BPA News
From: National Research Council, Board on Physics and Astronomy
Format: paper and web
Dates: September 1989 to date (winter 2006)
Notes: was Board on Physics and Astronomy Newsletter; Dec.95 forward on Web
Status: current

Title: Le Bulletin AFOEV 
From: Association Francaise des Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables
Format: paper(?) and web
Dates:  #1 (1967) to #115, 2006
Status: only selected articles available online
Note: at the same web site is La Gazette des Etoiles Variables, latest=#174, Sept.-Oct. 2000 (last issue)

Title: Bulletin d'information du Centre de Donnees Stellaires de Strasbourg
From: Observatoire de Strasbourg
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1971) to #48, March 1996
Status: superseded by CDS Newsletter

Title: CAS Newsletter
From: Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1987) to v.7, #2 (March 1994)
Status: unknown, not rec'd at ST ScI

Title: Cassiopeia
From: Canadian Astronomical Society
Format: paper (for members only) and web
Dates: #95 (1997) to date (#131, winter solstice 2006)
Status: current

Title: CDS Newsletter
From: Observatoire de Strasbourg
Format: email and web
Dates: #1 (March 2000)-#2 (October 2000)
Status: ceased?

Title: CFHT Information Bulletin
From: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1979) to #43 (2001)
Status: ceased

Title: CHAMA Newsletter
From: Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy of the International Union of History & Philosophy of Science
Format: paper and web
Dates: v.1, no. 1 (November 2002) - v.4, no. 1 (Feb. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Chandra Chronicles
From: Chandra X-ray Center
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: July 1999 to date (Feb. 22, 2007)
Status: current

Title: Chandra News
From: Chandra X-ray Center
Format: paper and web
Date: #1 (1993) to date (#13, March 2006)
Note: continues AXAF News
Status:  current 

Title: CITA Newsletter
From: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Format: formerly, paper and web
Dates: #1 (1984) to #29 (January 1998)
Note: Web version no longer available
Status: ceased?

Title: Columbus Project Newsletter
From: Steward Observatory/University of Arizona
Format: paper
Dates: 1987 (no number) to v.4, #1, fall 1992
Status: assumed dead

Title: Compton Observatory Newsletter
From: Compton Observatory Science Support Center, NASA/GSFC
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1991) to v.3, #2 (August 1993)
Notes: Vol. 1 issued as GRO Newsletter, published by Gamma Ray Observatory Support Group
Status: unknown

Title: COOLNEWS: a research Newsletter dedicated to cool stars and the sun
From: Steve Skinner, ed.
Format: web
Dates: #1 (September 1995) to date (#130, Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: CRAF Newsletter
From: Committee on Radio Frequencies, European Science Foundation
Format: paper and web
Dates:  1995/1 to date (2006/1, July 2006)
Status: current

Title: Delta Scuti Star Newsletter : for Delta Scuti, Gamma Doradus and SX Phe stars
From: Austrian Academy of Science
Format: web
Dates: #1 1989 to #14 (2000)
Status: merged with Communications in Asteroseismology in 2001.

Title: Digitized Optical Sky Surveys Newsletter
From: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1989)-#2 (1990)
Status: evidently ceased

Title: Distant EKOs - the Kuiper Belt electronic newsletter
From: J. Parker
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (Sept. 1998) to date (#50, Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: DRAO News
From: Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada
Format: web and paper (to telescope users only)
Dates: March 1995 (web version) to July 2005
Status: current

Title: Dwarf Tales: an electronic dwarf galaxies newsletter
From: dwarfs@star.herts.ac.uk
Format: email and web
Dates: #1 (March 1998) to date (#40, Dec. 2005)
Status: current

Title: Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte (EMA) / Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
From: Working Group for the History of Astronomy
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (February 1994) to date (#76, 19 Aug. 2005)
Status: current; note: Until No. 24, ENHA was the English version of EMA. Starting with No. 25, the translation could no longer be done for all German texts. Since then, both newsletters are more or less independent, but with a large overlap. All English texts are published in both, most German texts only in EMA.

Title: ESIS - European Space Information System - Newsletter
From: European Space Agency/ESRIN
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1993)
Status: unknown

Title: The ESO-MIDAS Courier : Newsletter of the MIDAS User's Community
From: European Southern Observatory
Format: web 
Dates: #1 (June 1991) to #8 (July 1995)
Status: ceased

Title: EAS [European Astronomical Society] Newsletter
From: M. Kontiza, ed.
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1991) to date (#32, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: European ALMA Newsletter
From: Tom Wilson, Martin Zwaan, and Carlos De Breuck, eds.
Format: web
Dates: #1 (July 2004) to date (#10, Nov. 2006)
Status: current

Title: The European Space Agency's IUE Newsletter
From: European Space Agency
Format: paper
Dates: #2 (1979) to #47 (January 1997)
Notes: Early issues called IUE/ESA Newsletter
Status: unknown

Title: The European VLBI network [EVN] Newsletter
From: Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy
Format: web
Dates: #1 (August 1993) to #4 (October 1996)
Status: unknown; query to ed. 5-22-98

Title: EUVE: Electronic Newsletter of the EUVE Observatory
From: Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, UC/Berkeley
Format: email and web
Dates: v.1 #1 (July 1991) to v.9 #2, October 2000
Status: monthly issues ceased as of December 1997; to be published "as needed" thereafter; Center closed 2001.

Title: EUVE Science Bulletin: Newsletter of the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
From: Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, UC/Berkeley
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1986) to #24 (January 1995)
Notes: #1 called EUVE illustrated technical bulletin, #2-21 called EUVE technical bulletin
Status: unknown

Title: FCRAO Newsletter
From: Five College Radio Observatory
Format: paper 
Dates: v.1 (December 1994) to v.8 (April 1997)
Status: suspended publication

Title: FRONTIERS, the U.K. Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) newsletter
From: PPARC
Format: paper and web
Dates: no.1 (Autumn 1997) to date (no. 25, Autumn 2006)
Status: current; paper available only to PPARC sites

Title: The Galileo Messenger
From: NASA/JPL
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (?) to #45 (October 1997)
Status: unknown; mission ended Sept. 2003

Title: GCNews : the newsletter of galactic center research
From: GCNews
Format: paper, e-mail, and web
Dates: v.1 (May 1996) to date (v.25, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Gemini
From: Royal Greenwich Observatory
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1982)-#42 (1993)
Status: replaced by: Spectrum

Title: Gemini Newsletter
From: Gemini Observatory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1992) to date (#33, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: GONG Newsletter
From: National Solar Observatory/Tucson
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1986) to #32 (April 2002)
Notes: Most newsletters after June 1992 are GONG contributions to the NOAO Newsletter
Status: subsumed into the NOAO/NSO newsletter

Title: GRAPE Newsletter
From: GRAPE Project
Format: web
Dates: #1 (Oct. 1, 2000) to date (#8, Dec. 16, 2006)
Status: current

Title: Haystack  Newsletter
From: Haystack Observatory
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (Fall 1981) to #8 (May 1991) [extra issues 1 Mar 1985 and 15 July 1985 called Bulletin; extra issue with no added designation dated 30 May 1985]
Notes: Unnumbered issues dated 30 Aug 1977 and 11 Dec 1978 called Haystack Observatory Newsletter; issue dated 15 Jan 1993 called Northeast Radio Observatory Corp., MIT Haystack Observatory Newsletter
Status: ceased

Title: H.E.A.O. Newsletter
From: Einstein Data Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (May 1989) to v.1, #7 (Sept. l992)
Status: evidently ceased

Title: Hoku - an online astronomy newsletter for educators and parents
From: Liz Bryson and Lisa Wells
Format: internet
Dates: v.1, #1 (February 2001) to date (v.6, #4, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Ho'opono Mauna Kea-a quarterly publication of the Mauna Kea Management Board and the Office of Mauna Kea Management
From: Office of Mauna Kea Management/640 N. Aohoku Place, Rm. 203/Hilo, HI. 
Format: paper
Dates: unknown (2001-?)
Status: unknown

Title: IAC Noticias
From: Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias
Format: paper and web (#43 forward)
Dates: #0 (1996) to date (#56, 2005)
Status: current

Title: IAU Commission 5: Documentation and Astronomical Data Newsletter
From: IAU Commission 5
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1986) to #16 [n.s. #2] (Dec. 1997)
Notes: Some issues found in Bulletin d'information du CDS; paper distributed only to members
Status: unknown; web link not working 3/05

Title: IAU Commission 9: Working Group on Sky Surveys Newsletter
From: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (#1-6); Astrophysicalisches Institut Potsdam (#7-   )
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1991) to #12 (2000)
Notes: #1-9: Working Group on Wide-Field Imaging.
Status: unknown

Title: IAU Commission 30: Radial Velocities Newsletter
From: Commission 30
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1987) to #2 (June 1988), Jan. 1998, Nov. 1999, Feb. 2003
Status: unknown

Title: IAU Commission 42:  Bibliography of Close Binaries
From: Astronomical Institute/University Erlangen-Nurnberg
Format: paper and web
Notes: Title varies: no.23-65 Bibliography and program notes on close binaries
Dates: #1 (1959) to date (#82, June 2006)
Status: current

Title: IAU Commission 46: Astronomy Education and Development Newsletter
From: IAU Commission 46
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (1977) to date (#65, Oct. 2006)
Status: current

Title: IAU Commission 5l:  Bioastronomy News.
From: The Planetary Society, Pasadena, CA
Format: paper
Dates: v.3 (1987) to date (v.11 #3, 1999)
Status: unknown

Title: IAU Information Bulletin
From: International Astronomical Union
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (June 1959) to date (#99, Jan. 2007)
Note: The online version of the newsletter sometimes contains corrections and updates from the printed version.
Status: current

Title:  The ING Newsletter
From: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
Format: web (paper copies available on demand from Javier Mendez
Dates: #1 (September 1999) to date (#10, Dec. 2005)
Note: Published twice a year
Status: current

Title: ISDC-Astrophysics Newsletter
From: INTEGRAL Science Data Center
Format: web
Dates: v.1, #1 (July 12, 2000) to date (#20, 15 Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: IIA Newsletter
From: Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1986) to v.10, #1/2 (April 1995)
Status: unknown

Title: Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
From:  Konkoly Observatory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (Oct. 1961) to date (#5757, 23 Feb. 2007)
Status: current
Note: Fee for paper version

Title: Inside Astrophysics
From: NASA
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1991) to Final Issue (Spring 1994)
Status: Paper edition ceased; unable to verify electronic access

Title: International SCOSTEP Newsletter
From: SCOSTEP Secretariat
Format: paper and web
Dates: v.1, #1 (March 1998) to date (v.5, #1, March 2002)
Notes: continues International STEP Newsletter
Status: unknown -- newsletter webpage states "Coming Soon."

Title: International STEP Newsletter
From: SCOSTEP Secretariat
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (November 1995) to v.3, #4 (December 1997)
Notes: v.1, #1-3 and v.2, #1 called Interim International STEP Newsletter.
Status: ceased publication; continued by  International SCOSTEP Newsletter.

Title: International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) NASA Newsletter.
From: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center.
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1978) to #57 (October 1997)
Status: #57 is probably the last issue.

Title: IPAC Newsletter
From: Infrared Processing Center.
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1985) to v.8, #2 (October 1993)
Status: unknown

Title: IRAF Newsletter
From: NOAO
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1986) to #14 (April 1998)
Status: unknown

Title: IRAM Newsletter.
From: Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (January 1992) to date (#67, Aug. 2006)
Status: current

Title: IRTF News
From: NASA Infrared Telescope Facility/Institute for Astronomy
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1986) to #11 (1996)
Status: unknown

Title: ISO Info
From: European Space Agency
Format: paper : web
Dates: #1 (1986) to #15 (August 1999)
Status: unknown

Title: ISO/IRAS Newsletter
From: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Format: paper
Dates: #2 (1990) to v.3, #3 (December 1995)
Notes: #1-3 called IRAS (UK) Newsletter
Status: unknown

Title: ISOC Newsletter
From: INTEGRAL Science Operations Center
Format: web/pdf
Dates: No.1 (November 2000) to date (#16, Sept. 2006)
Status: current

Title: ISTS Waves
From: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1990) to v.7, #8 (March 1996)
Status: ceased

Title: JCMT Newsletter
From: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (July 1993) to #24 (spring 2006)
Notes: Continues in part: JCMT-UKIRT Newsletter; no.8 forward available only electronically.
Status: current; Spectrum added to the title with #24

Title: JCMT-UKIRT Newsletter
From: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Notes: Combined UKIRT Newsletter (#1-22) and Protostar: the Newsletter of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (#1-10). JCMT and UKIRT each resumed separate publication after #5.
Dates: #1-5 (1991-March 1993)
Status: ceased

Title: Khagol: a bulletin of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
From: IUCAA, India
Dates: #8 (1991) to date (#68, Oct. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Legacy: the journal of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
From: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (May 1992) to #7 (June 1998)
Status: ceased?

Title: LEST Newsletter
From: LEST Foundation Directorate/Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (August 1993) to #2 (March 1994)
Status: ceased

Title: La Lettre de l'OHP (Observatoire de Haute-Provence)
From: Observatoire de Haute Provence
Format: paper and electronic
Dates: #1 (July 1989) to date (#21, Feb. 2003)
Notes: #14 forward also available online, #20 forward only online
Status: unknown

Title: Launch Alert
From: Brian Webb
Format: email
Dates: December 1996 to date
Notes: distributed ~4 times/month, includes southern California astronomy and space news
Status: current

Title: Looking Up: Newsletter of the Division of Astronomical Sciences
From: National Science Foundation
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (?) to v.1, #2 (Spring 1992)
Status: unknown

Title: Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
From: Lunar and Planetary Institute
Format: paper and pdf
Dates: #1 (1974) to date (#108, Nov. 2006)
Notes: #1-14 called Lunar science information bulletin; paper distribution ceased with #96
Status: current

Title: The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter 
From: MC News editor.
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #0 (September 15, 1995) to #79 (Dec. 16, 2004)
Status: unknown

Title: The Martian Chronicle: electronic Newsletter for Mars Exploration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
From: JPL
Format: web
Dates: #1 (January 1995) to date (#8, April 1997)
Status: unknown; no update to website since 5/97; website gone 7/01

Title: Massive Star Newsletter, an electronic publication dedicated to O, Of, LBV and Wolf-Rayet stars
From: Philippe Eenens, ed.
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (1994) to date (#95, Sept.-Oct. 2006) [Note: known as the Hot Star Newsletter through no.79, Sept./Oct. 2003]
Status: current

Title: Mauna 'ikena: Newsletter of the University of Hawaii Telescopes on Mauna Kea
From: University of Hawaii
Format: paper and web
Dates: unnumbered (April 1990) to (March 1998)
Status: unknown; web versions msg as of 7/02

Title: MAST Newsletter [Multi-mission Archive at ST ScI]
From: Archive Branch, Space Telescope Science Institute
Format: email and web
Dates: v.1 (Nov. 1997) to v.18 (Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: Measuring Machine Newsletter
From: Science Engineering Research Council (U.K.)
Format: paper
Dates: #8 (1985) to #13 (1991)
Status: ceased

Title: The Messenger/El Mensajero
From: European Southern Observatory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1974) to date (#126, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: MIRA Newsletter
From: Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
Format: paper and web
Dates: v.1, #1 (1978) to date (v.29, #4, Winter 2006)
Status: current

Title: MSATT Newsletter
From: Lunar and Planetary Institute
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (July 1991) to #2 (July 1992)
Status: dead

Title: NAIC/Arecibo Observatory Newsletter
From: National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
Format: paper and web (#16 forward)
Dates: #1 (1983) to date (#40, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: NCRA News
From: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (March 1996) to date (#2, December 1998)
Status: unknown

Title: NFRA Newsletter (aka ASTRON Newsletter)
From: Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy
Format: paper, e-mail, and web
Dates: #1 (1990) #17 (Oct. 2002), July 2005-June 2006
Notes: Title varies - #1-#11 called ASTRON/NFRA Newsletter; starting 2005, no issue numbering
Status: current

Title: Na Kilo HoKu - a newsletter from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i
From: Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
Format: web
Dates: #1 (Summer 2001) to date (#21, 2006)
Status: current

Title: Newsletter of Chemically Peculiar Red Giant Stars/Bulletin sur les etoiles tardives a spectre particulier
From: Astronomy Dept., Ohio State University
Format: e-mail, paper, and web (12-18 only)
Dates: #1 (1984) to #21 (August 1997)
Notes: #1-5 had title in reverse order - French/English
Status: apparently ceased

Title: Newsletter of Laboratory Spectroscopy for Planetary Sciences
From: NASA-Ames
Format: paper
Dates: #8 (1980) to #25 (April 1992)
Status: apparently ceased

Title: Newsletter of the Working Group on "Radio Astronomical Databases" (IAU Commission 40)
From: Heinz Andernach
Format: email
Dates: #1 (Oct 1991) to #2 (Jan 1993)
Status: ceased; back issues available from Heinz Andernach

Title: Newsletter on the Analysis of Astronomical Spectra
From: Collaborative Computational Project no. 7 on the analysis of astronomical spectra, Daresbury Laboratory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1981) to #24 (November 1996)
Status: ceased publication with #24 per editor, 5-21-98

Title: NOAO Newsletter
From: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1985) to date (#88, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: NOT News
From: Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Assn.
Format: formerly, paper and web
Dates: #1 (December 1989) to (#9 December 1996)
Status: unknown; link dead, July 2003

Title: Les Nouvelles d'Arizes
From: Obsevatoire du Pic-du-Midi
Format: paper
Dates: #2 (1991) to #6 (January 1994)
Status: unknown

Title: NRAO Newsletter
From: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1985) to date (#110, Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: NRO/Nobeyama Observatory Newsletter
From: Nobeyama Radio Observatory
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1985) to #6 (1992)
Status: unknown; probably ceased

Title: NSSDC News
From: NASA/National Space Science Data Center
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (1985) to June 2003 (web only)
Status: ceased?; paper discontinued with Dec. 2001 issue

Title: PATT (Panel for Allocation of  Telescope Time) Newsletter
From: Science Engineering Research Council, U.K.
Format: paper 
Dates: March 1990 to Sept. 1997
Status: ceased; PATT Electronic Newsletter available ~Sept. 1998-    .  See Newsletter 1 for details.  [As of 12/03, there were five electronic newsletters, the most current being September 2000]

Title: Preparing For the Future
From: European Space Agency/ESA Publications Division
Format: paper
Dates: v.1 #1 (1991) to date (v.12 #2, July 2002)
Status: dorment

Title: Pulsar Newsletter
From: Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics/University of Sydney
Format: email and web
Dates: February 1996-November 1998
Status: unknown.  Webpage last updated November 1998

Title: Reaching for the Skies
From: European Space Agency
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1986) #25, November 2002
Status: dormant

Title: Reflections
From: Mt. Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1983) to v.3, #1 (1986)
Status: evidently ceased

Title: Restoration: Newsletter of STScI's Image Restoration Project
From: Space Telescope Science Institute
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (summer 1993)
Status: only one issue

Title: ROSAT Newsletter: US ROSAT science data Newsletter
From: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Format: paper
Dates: #1 1989) to #13 (June 1996)
Status: unknown

Title: SAAO Newsletter
From: South African Astronomical Observatory
Format: paper and web (#30-34)
Dates: #1 1993 to #34, June 2000
Status: ceased

Title: SCAN-IT : PDPP Newsletter
From: IAU Task Force on Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates 
Format: web
Dates: #1 (Sept. 2002) to date (#4, Aug. 2006)
Status: current

Title: SCYON : Star Clusters Old and New
From: Christian Boily, Pavel Kroupa, and Jean-Claude Mermilliod 
Format: web
Dates: #1 (2001) to date (#31, 30 Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: SIRTF Mirror: The JPL Space Infrared Telescope Facility Newsletter
From: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1985) to #6 (September 1990)
Notes: #1-5 called SIRTF Newsletter
Status: unknown; probably ceased

Title: Solar System Exploration
From: Office of Space Science/NASA
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (summer 1995) to #4 (July 1997)
Status: unknown

Title: Solar System Exploration Newsletter (aka SSE Newsletter)
From: Office of Space Science/NASA
Format: online
Dates: #1 (April 2000) to #2 (August 2000)
Status: appears to have been superseded by Solar System Forecast 12/03 forward

Title: Solar System News: Newsletter of the Planetary and Space Science Division (PSS) and Solar Heliospheric Science Division (SHS)
From: European Space Agency
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (?) to #26 (Oct. 2000)
Status: subsumed into Space Science News

Title SONGNews: Newsletters of the Stellar Oscillations Network Group
From: NOAO
Format: web
Dates: #1 (July 1996) to #2 (October 1996)
Status: unknown

Title: Space Science News
From: European Space Agency, Research and Scientific Support Department
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (March 2001) to date (#11, Jan. 2007)
Status: current

Title: Space Science Newsletter (aka ESA Science Newsletter)
From: European Space Agency, Directorate of Sciences
Format: paper through #30, 1995; web thereafter
Dates: #1 (1985) to date (#40, 22 June 2001)
Status: unknown; link broken 12/03

Title: Space Telescope Science Institute Newsletter
From: Space Telescope Science Institute
Format: paper and web
Dates: v.1 #1 (1984) to date (v.23 #2, fall 2006)
Status: current

Title: Spectrum: Newsletter of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Issac Newton Group, La Palma
From: Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (March 1994) to #16 (October 1998)
Status: ceased publication with #16.

Title: ST-ECF Newsletter
From: Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (March 1985) to date (#41, Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Standard Star Newsletter
From: Richard Gray, ed. 
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (November 1992) to date (#41, Oct. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Star and Planet - Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Newsletter
From: Steve Unwin, ed. 
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (January 2003) to date (#10, 22 Aug. 2006)
Status: current?

Title: The Star Formation Newsletter: an electronic publication dedicated to early stellar evolution and molecular clouds
From: Bo Reipurth, ed.
Format: e-mail and web
Dates: #1 (October 1992) to date (#170, 19 Dec. 2006)
Status: current

Title: Starlink Bulletin
From: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Format: paper and web (#16 forward)
Dates: #1 (1988) to #21 (September 1998)
Status: dormant as of 7/02.  Web version no longer available.

Title: STEP-GBRSC News
From: Solar-Terrestiral Environmental Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan
Format: paper
Dates: v.1, #1 (1991) to v.6 (1996)
Status: ceased; program STEP closed in March 1996; activities continued as part of SCOSTEP.

Title: STEP International
From: US STEP Coordinating Office/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Format: paper
Dates: v.2, #1 (1992) to v.5, #1 (January 1995)
Notes: incorporating U.S. STEP Newsletter (v.1, #1-6)
Status: ceased publication: followed by International STEP Newsletter.

Title: STP Newsletter
From: World Data Center-A of STP
Format: paper
Dates: 1984-1 to 1995/96
Status: ceased

Title: STP Newsletter
From: ICSU Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics
Format: paper (?) and web
Dates: 1997/98-2001
Status: ceased

Title: SUBARU Newsletter
From: Subaru Project Office/National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo
Format: paper 
Dates: v.1 #1 (August 1993) to v.1 #3 (July 1996)
Status: appears to have ceased

Title: TNG Newsletter
From: Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, Observatorio Astronomico de Padova
Format: paper and web [web version msg 2/06]
Dates: #1 (January 1992) to #19 (May 1998)
Status: ceased

Title: UKIRT Newsletter
From: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1979) to #23 (1993)
Status: ceased

Title: United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Newsletter
From: Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo, Hawaii
Format: paper and web
Dates: #1 (June 1997) to date (#19, autumn 2006)
Status: current

Title: V-gram: Magellan Bulletin about Venus and the Radar Mapping Mission
From: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Format: paper
Dates: #6 (1984) to #20 (April 1993)
Status: unknown

Title: VBT (Vainu Bappu Telescope) News
From: Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Format: paper
Dates: #1 (1989) to #8/9 (October 1991)
Status: evidently ceased

Title: XMM-Newton-News (High Throughput Spectroscopy Mission)
From: European Space Agency
Format: web
Dates: #1 (January 1994) to date (1 March 2007)
Status: current

Last update: 26 September 2006


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