Is it just me, or has it been a slow week so far for space news post-AAS?
Admittedly, on the last night of the conference astronomers party like they mean it, as I discovered last year during the winter Austin meeting and had confirmed for me this year in Long Beach. [But that's just a sample size of two—I need way more data, I think... ]
I was too busy busting a move to blog about it, but Eric Hand over at Nature found time for a quick post that sums up the atmosphere at this year's gathering.
Word on the street is that the next winter meeting will descend on my hometown of Washington, D.C., and I can't wait to see where the last-night shindig lands.
In the meanwhile, I guess folks are shaking off the effects of all those "Galileo 400" cocktails and are gearing up for the global launch of the International Year of Astronomy in Paris this Thursday and Friday.
Perhaps riding the party vibe, my favorite spacey picture today features a psychedelic light show over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.
—Photo courtesy Calee Allen, National Science Foundation
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