Our species has been around on the planet for approximately 200,000 years. That’s some 8,000 generations, quite a long while any way you slice it. And certainly our ancestors occasionally glanced up at a starry night sky, unhindered by light pollution, and wondered what the twinkling lights were all about. But the history of astronomyContinue reading “Don’t worry, be happy. We live in a golden age of astronomy”

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