The thing that really got me excited about pursuing astronomy was the discovery aspect: It was just super thrilling to be the first person to look at light that was released from around a black hole a billion years ago. That\u2019s amazing. How is it that we puny human beings can even think about these things, or come together to build technologies to answer some of these huge fundamental questions that people have been asking since the beginning of human thinking?<\/p>\n

And I love the community aspect of bringing people together for a common goal. We have this idea about what \u201cscience\u201d is \u2014 that you were, like, sitting by yourself and inspired by your own creative genius, and you made all of these discoveries on your own. But that\u2019s not what\u2019s super inspiring about it. To me, it\u2019s that we are able to work together and use each other\u2019s expertise to create something so much bigger than any of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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