If you got lost with no access to GPS, would you be able to figure out where to go to get home? For hundreds of years, navigators used celestial bodies to guide their paths. Your phone can do that for you now, sure—but in a pinch, using the sun, moon, and stars as your map is a pretty cool skill to have.

Chico State professor Nick Nelson tells us how it's done.

The intro song is "Look Up" by Aaron Sprinkle. The outro is "Celestial" by Adrian Walther.

Read the transcript here: https://today.csuchico.edu/making-the-stars-your-map