When I was a little five-year-old boy, I remember once being outside at night with my mother, walking down the street, and pointing up at the sky, saying, “That’s Cassiopeia!” It’s an easy constellation to find in the northern sky, as it’s shaped like a W, and its stars are bright. I knew it from a star chart in the encyclopedia my parents had bought …
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