People have always
been interested in space.
Cave people painted
picture of the night
sky on the walls of their caves.
Ancient Egyptian believed
there were sun gods and
moon goddesses. The ancient
Chinese built town towers so they
could study the sky more closely.
Over the centuries people began to write down what they learned from look names. They made maps of the stars
They noted changes in the sky
from months to months and from years to years.