Astronomy education resources and news: Astronomy Education Review (AER) electronic journal closes down, see obituary, permanent AER archives and resources from http://scitation.aip.org/content/aas/journal/aer/12/1/10.3847/AER2013017

According to Fraknoi's obituary, the AER ran for almost 12 years, publishing astronomy education research and making it freely available via the web before recently becoming a victim of insufficient papers, few readers, narrow coverage, and budgetary constraints. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) will keep the AER archive online in perpetuity, and is reviewing how the society might support astronomy education via other publications. In addition to expected research articles on astronomy education, the AER published cultural articles, in 2012 reviewing over 100 pieces of classical and popular music inspired by astronomical ideas and organized into categories, e.g., black holes, planets, etc. at http://aer. aas.org/resource/1/aerscz/v11/i1/p010303_s1?view=fulltext. In 2011, AER published an annotated overview of 98 astronomy applications for smartphones and tablets, which featured brief descriptions and direct URLs: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2011036. The listing includes a variety of apps for displaying and explaining the sky above you (some using the GPS function in your...