However you reckon they came about in the first place, the stars have been around for a very long time, sitting in space waiting for us to do something with them. After naming a few of the big stars like the Sun, Proxima Centauri and Sirius (also called the Dog Star – they named that one twice!) they started calling the rest of them by long, boring numbers. We thought this left a massive opportunity for people with more imagination to give them nice, interesting names instead.

With our Name a Star package you can name a star after someone you love as a romantic gift, after your favourite celebrity (several celebs have already bought star names for fellow stars), or even name stars after yourself! It makes a unique gift and gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "see your name up in lights"!

The planets have already been named after Roman gods, so you can't name any of them. What you can do, though, is buy some land there. For significantly cheaper than your average cupboard in London, you can own an acre of Mars or Venus, or even buy an acre of the Moon with our brilliant Moon Estate gifts.

We were thinking, here at Buyagift HQ, that people like to look at the neighbourhood before buying an acre of land down here on Earth. If you're looking to buy some Moon land, or perhaps thinking about buying an Acre of Mars, that's a little bit tricky. To say the least.

So we decided that the next best thing was for you to be able to use this map take a closer look at the Moon or Mars and think about where your Acre of Moon Estate will be purchasing.

Should you find yourself with the choice we recommend the following sites: