I am lucky enough to live in a place that I can see the night sky as it should be. It takes time to be able ‘see’ the Milky Way. And what made it easy to understand was seeing andromeda through binoculars.

Realising that if I was in andromeda looking back at the Milky Way it would look the same. I could then understand that I wasn’t looking at the Milky Way, but part of it and looking out.

Really grounded me.