astronomy

“Ultimately astronomy is a social event, so it’s best done with other people.”

"I want to engage with the public, excite them about what we do in astronomy, but also make it clear how important what we do is to the UK economy," Prof Dougherty said.

"The observatory is astronomy, it is also meteorology, and after many years I feel like I'm part of the brickwork."

The current theories of astronomy can't explain why the planets, stars and galaxies came into existence.

As he puts it, centuries ago, we believed we were at the centre of the Universe and with each discovery in astronomy we have found ourselves "more displaced" from that point.