If I look into the sky and I see two yellow dots it’s all stars for me. Then I hear one of them is mars and I’m like „ok, still looks the same“. How did the people hundred of years ago discover what’s a close planet and what’s a far away star?
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Yeah but we don’t really look at the stars nowadays. Before light pollution, reading, TV, radio, etc. Humans had stars at night. Not only did they stare at them long enough to recognize that some were different, planets, but they also knew what certain stars meant, for them. When one constellation was in one spot of the sky there was water at this site. When a constellation was in a different spot buffalo could be found at another site
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