WHEN A NEW STAR bursts forth in the sky or a comet appears unexpectedly over the horizon, astronomers all over the world hope for prompt notification lest possible observations be irretrievably lost. To provide the required world‐wide communications, the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams operates under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.
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