Posted 01-06-2010 by
Rich Talcott
It’s official: The 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., is the largest astronomical meeting in history. The number of attendees has reached 3,400, several hundred more than the previous record crowd. All of the astronomers here consist entirely of normal matter — the protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up all that we see in the cosmos. But this morning’s press conference shied away from normal stuff and concentrated...