It might be our job, what we were created to do, the purpose of life. Don't be so quick to scoff.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years:
The presence of signs implies somebody to read signs. Who would that be? Satan? No, of course it's us. We are supposed to be peering at stars; it's our job, man.