Looking out into the Universe through the window of a clear night sky warmly bundled up with a warm drink on a cold, winter night is a great way to spend an evening. Since we live in a rural area where much of the land is forested, we can see lots of stars and other celestial objects. Now imagine you lived in a big city with skyscapers. Usually, you can only see the moon and a few of the brightest stars in the sky, because there are so many lights from Earth shining into the

The first stargazers called anything that was lit up in the night sky a star. The word star comes from the Latin word “Stella” which means “to shine.” So the word star included planets, the moon, galaxies and what we call stars today. Ancient peoples observed these objects and as time went by they noticed that some of the stars were “fixed in the sky” and some of them “wandered”. Years and years of watching these movements and recording them led to the creation of the calenda