Street parade at the 2025 Parkes Elvis Festival, with Parkes Observatory float in the background. (Image credit: John Sarkissian)

The Parkes Elvis Festival celebrated its 32nd year earlier this month! The theme for this year’s festival, held from January 8th to 12th, was Easy Come, Easy Go, the title of Elvis’s 1967 musical comedy film. The Parkes Observatory float, featured in yesterday’s ADAP and seen in the background of today’s picture, was awarded Best Float in this year’s street parade. The foreground scene of an alien abducting an Elvis impersonator perhaps suggests Elvis’s fame extends far beyond Earth! (Image credit: John Sarkissian)