Dispatch from the American Astronomical Society meeting

The American Astronomical Society meeting, held here this week, was officially the largest congregation of astronomers (3,400 of them) in history--the most extraordinary collection of cosmic knowledge that has ever gathered together with the possible exception of when Isaac Newton dined alone.

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