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Seismology has the potential to locate nuclear tests, including those carried out by North Korea. The British Geophysical Association devoted their main annual meeting to the challenges of supporting global security.

The October issue of A&G covers one of the RAS200 Bicentenary outreach projects will be taking place in South Africa, using a major exhibition as the focus for astronomy education and outreach.

Fun Palaces are creative, cultural, but above all community events taking place worldwide on the weekend of 6 and 7 October. This year the RAS is joining in, along with Creativity and Curiosity.

Hannah Dalgleish won an RAS Grant to attend the 8th Communicating Astronomy to the Public (CAP) conference at the The Fukuoka City Science Museum in Japan – and was exceptionally lucky that the cherry blossom (sakura) came a week early!

The two beautiful regulator clocks that hang outside the Council Room at Burlington House are important items in the Society’s historic instruments collection, writes Beth Gaskell. They are two of the first instruments to be donated to the Society in 1827.

NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter offers an opportunity for amateur observers to collaborate with mission scientists – to mutual benefit.

A talk to the friends of the RAS provided an opportunity to chat with interesting – and interested –people.

RAS grants and awards support conferences, whether promoting outreach or enhancing international collaboration.

Do you know a star, whether at the peak of their career or an up-and-coming world leader of the future? If so, now is the time to nominate them for an RAS Medal or Award

A paper in an RAS journal documents traces of a North Korean underground nuclear test in 2016 – demonstrating the value of a technique not used since 1992. InSAR data complements seismic methods more widely used to monitor such tests.