The parade of planets has intrigued star-watchers for thousands of years. Here is a group of what look like bright stars - minus any obvious twinkle - which unlike the rest of the starry dome, they keep changing position. Referred to as “wandering stars,” they were seen to loop around the sun and Earth from our perspective, and it took many centuries to untangle just what they were seeing - what went around what? Debates about a flat Earth were coupled with the heretical notion that the Earth may be one of those “wandering stars.”
