Back in my youth, one of the astronomers I had the good fortune to befriend was the great Bart Bok (1906–1983). This was near the end of his life, long after he had revolutionized our understanding of ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy Christmas lights to shame, especially when viewed from a dark sky location.

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Kemble's Cascade is an asterism located in Camelopardalis, identified by Lucian Kemble and formally named in 1980 by Walter Scott Houston, distinguishing it from conventional deep-sky object ...

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