• Question: What is the most fascinating thing about space?

    Asked by 724spcn52 to Kathryn, Xu, Leah-Nani, Ian, Hina, Andrew on 12 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by 498spcn37.
    • Photo: Hina Khan

      Hina Khan answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      For me it is the vastness of space and the fact that when you look at the stars and galaxies, you are looking into the past. Those objects might not even exist anymore, yet you are seeing the light from them because it took many many years to get to us. The Andromeda galaxy is over 2 million light years away – so it took the light to travel over 2 million years to get to us! Who knows if the galaxy still exists today?

    • Photo: Kathryn Burrows

      Kathryn Burrows answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      I completely agree with Hina. Also that so much of it is unexplored.

    • Photo: Leah-Nani Alconcel

      Leah-Nani Alconcel answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      Space is big, really big. You won’t believe how mind-bogglingly big it is.

    • Photo: Andrew Margetts-Kelly

      Andrew Margetts-Kelly answered on 13 Jun 2018:

      I think it is fascinating that it doesn’t matter where we look, we always find something new. There is so much to explore; we’ll never run out of places to look.

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