It’s hard to imagine Christmas without stars. They perch at the top of fir trees, glitter from greeting cards and dangle festively over shopping precincts. This year, even the John Lewis advert and Selfridges’ Oxford Street window display — two of the holiest icons of our modern, commercialised Christmas —both have astronomical themes.
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Marek Kukula is Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £22. Tel: 08430 600033
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