Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
Over centuries, theological theories about heaven, its nature, and location kept mutating and changing. Discovery of the telescope made a lot of old theories obsolete and doubtful. From the Aeon website here is a history of all of this. Very well written and interesting. A good bit of what I call historical theology. Quite informative and amusing.
How heaven became a place among the stars | Aeon Essays
For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists
aeon.co