Many millennia before anyone looked through a telescope or drove a rocket into outer space, our ancestors gazed at the night sky with fascination, reverence, and a deep desire to know more. Early observers observed the movements of stars and planets and found ways to incorporate them practically and symbolically into their daily lives. People used this intricate knowledge of celestial objects and events to tell time and navigate, but they also used stars and planets to tell stories, build societies, and very remarkably understand their own human relationship to the universe. surrounded.