Before maps and measurements, people looked up and told stories to explain how the night came to be. Fires burned low while ash became stars, animals carried the world into shape and light found its way into the dark. These are the creation stories that turned an empty sky into something known, stories shared the way they always were, gathered close beneath the first stars.
January 2026 night sky guide: prime deep sky Jan 15-23 around the new moon, Quadrantids Jan 3-4, Jupiter at opposition Jan 10, what to shoot and where to aim.
