One of my favorite asterisms, the Coat Hanger, also known as Collinder 399 or Brocchi’s Cluster. Credit: Creators.com illustration Regular readers of my column know that constellations are impossible ...

Those who have seen it have described it as a rather curious grouping of about a dozen tiny stars looking very much like an inverted coat hanger. In a clear, dark sky you might even perceive it with ...

During the Perseid meteor shower this month I did some reminiscing on how, as a teenager, I used to watch this famous meteor display from my Aunt Irma and Uncle Ron’s house in then-rural Mahopac, New ...