what science comes easy to you if any?

[Cyberman]

What about astronomy does it for you?

Initially, as I recall, it was the sheer excitement of exploring space just like my favourite sci-fi heroes. As I grew into it I developed the fascination that comes with knowing that those planets shining away in the sky are actual places, as real as anything here on Earth, with landmarks and vistas all their own.

For example, here's an image returned by the Soviet lander Venera-9 from the perpetually cloud-wreathed surface of Venus:



Take a look at those innocent little rocks. How many wars and revolutions happened here on Earth while they were just sitting there, untouched by any hand and unseen by any eyes, before we turned up and made them famous?

It's the same story further out into the Universe of course, so many stars and galaxies that numbers become meaningless, and all of them real places that we on our pale blue dot will most likely never experience.

That's part of it.