Deep space astronomy excites me because while I may be easily excited about many things (many of them quite trivial), space is the furthest and widest expanse of imagination and science I can think of – it is pretty much the only thing that we humans can’t readily explore, and it just so happens that it happens to be infinite. When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut because I found the possibility of a blank slate of stars and night being intermittently spotted with extraterrestrials, planets like our own, and the vastness of infinity wonderfully exciting (Star Wars helped my obsession). As I got older, I started to appreciate all that lay beyond our night sky for a simpler reason – I saw what was going on in our world and wondered that if in some far off galaxy there was another one that had managed to steer away from the very things that create the cyclical downfalls of human civilization. But because I am a Gemini, and I am one of those people who believes in astrology just as much as astronomy, I found the vastness of space too intimidating and focused – I instead settled for a career path in fashion design, where I may wish to design techno space costumes if I wish. Here I am able to practice my imagination through creative design and science through the engineering of clothes and fabric, just on a smaller, less expensive scale.