Associated Groups
The RAS sponsors topical groups, many of them in interdisciplinary areas where the group is jointly sponsored by another learned society or professional body:
- The Astrobiology Society of Britain
- The Astroparticle Physics Group (with the Institute of Physics)
- The Astrophysical Chemistry Group (with the Royal Society of Chemistry)
- The British Geophysical Association (with the Geological Society of London)
- The Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial group (generally known by the acronym MIST)
- The UK Planetary Forum
- The UK Solar Physics group
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