Space inspires people

— Posted inScience — 2 min read
Four Eyes of Tatooine by Stefan Lines (created whilst working on his PhD thesis in Dr Leinhardt’s Planet Formation Group at the University of Bristol). This computer generated image, based on data taken from actual super-computer simulations, shows the formation of a planet around a binary star — a so called ‘circumbinary planet’. Tiny unit vectors show the magnitude (colour) and direction (orientation) of the acceleration of millions of tiny rocky ‘planetesimals’ that eventually coalesce to form a planet.

Why do you think space inspires people so much?

I guess that it’s our human nature to explore and we see it, at least most of us can see it, at night and I think that it’s in our nature to ask why things look the way they do, or why a process happens. And since you can look up in the sky and see a bunch of lights, it’s natural to question what that is and want to be able to explain it and go there. So I think it’s just our natural instinct to want to explain what we don’t understand, especially if we can see it.

(Zoë Leinhardt – continue to read the interview)

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