Tomorrow, May 10, is World Astronomy Day. It is now de rigueur to nominate almost every day of the year to something or the other. Not surprisingly, astronomy is one of them.

Sadly, this day never gets the play in popular, mainstream media as it should. But here’s the thing: astronomy, and its associated fields of science, should be as important to our lives as, say, politics, because they address the very fundamental questions that dog mankind — where did it all begin and where did the universe emanate from?