It is our pleasure to announce the release of the Athena Community Newsletter (issue 9), which we hope is of interest to you.

• Welcome

• Ninth AO to join the Athena

• Latest news

• The Athena-multimessenger synergy white paper

• Rubin-Athena synergy status

• Athena Study Status

• News from the Instruments: WFI and X-IFU

• News from JAXA

• News from NASA

• #AthenaNuggets: Athena's discovery potential for nearby X-ray emitting large-scale filaments

• #AthenaNuggets: Anticipating the unexpected

• Athena Community People: Matteo Guainazzi, Esra Bulbul and Stefano Ettori

• AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 3

• Conferences