We’ll never know who was the first human to look up at the stars speckling the night sky and see opportunity. Someone was the first to imagine stories playing out in the heavens above and to start naming the glimmering lights for gods and animals and heroes. Perhaps even before that, humans noticed they could navigate using the stars, and mark the passing of the seasons by the lights’ shifting positions. And one day, someone looked up at the cosmos and said, “I want to go there.” In December, astronomer…
