Who were the first to study the stars and planets?

Answer 1

The first people to look up into the skies and write down their findings were the ancient Chinese and Arabs in particular. The Crab nebula that we see today as a large and diffuse crab shaped mass of dust was recorded by the Chinese as a supernova in about 1054. Many stars have Arabic names ,Aldeberan ,Alcor etc. Tycho Brahe, the naked eye astronomer with a nose made of silver in his observatory in Uraniborg worked With Johannes Kepler to place the Sun at the center of our solar system and place planets in elliptical orbits..

Answer 2

To find the first people to study the stars, you need to go back a LOT further than the Greeks! (To be proper, back then there was no "Greece", or even "Hellas"; what we think of as "Greece" was a warring band of independent city-states. Athens and Sparta were merely the most powerful competitors.)

The first to study the stars in any systematic way were probably the Babylonians, with the Egyptians probably a close second. If any earlier civilizations made any significant observations, their names have not come down to us.

One other ancient civilization worth mentioning would be the Phoenicians; not so much for their study of astronomy, but for their use of the stars in navigation.

Answer 3

Probably the Sumerians and Babylonians.