STARSPOTTERS GUIDE (HB)

Outreach officer for the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr Sheila Kanani, is the ideal guide to the night sky for the armchair stargazer. Here she presents the stories that cultures across the world have told about the stars for millennia and how these have shaped our exploration and understanding of the Earth, from astrologers in ancient India calculating the length of the year, to Polynesian explorers navigating the Pacific, to today’s ongoing discoveries.