Where ‘stars’ came from

From The Atlantic: "The broad use of the word 'star' to indicate a leader among us dates back, according to Peter Davis, a theater historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to the Middle Ages. Chaucer, who was also the first recorded user of the word 'celebrity' and one of the first to use the word 'famous,' also hinted at the lexical convergence of the human and the celestial: In "The House of Fame," Chaucer's dreamer worries that he might find himself 'stellified.' 'O God Who made nature,' the dreamer thinks, 'am I to die in no other way? Will Jove transform me into a star?'"