How can you get and stay informed about astronomy research?
Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Email lists: Sigma Xi’s Science in the News: http://www.mediaresource.org/news.shtml;  NASA’s space science news: http://science.nasa.gov/
Physical Review Focus: http://focus.aps.org/
Read Science’s “News of the Week” each week
Scan tables of contents of ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, PASP (in Cornell Library or on-line) (Astro 61 webpage is a good source of specific information about the literature)
Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics