Evidence of human fascination with the sky goes back as far as recorded history. Beginning from the Babylonian era as far back as 3000BC to the Chinese who were undoubtedly the world’s most astute skywatchers by around 400BC, documented stories of heavenly bodies attest to this. But the Greeks even went as far as relating their gods to heavenly bodies in the sky, Zeus the god of the sky (Jupiter), for instance. The sky has also captured the imaginations of poets and philosophers for centuries as one of life’s...