• Question: What got you interested in astronomy?

    Asked by anon-317372 to Vicky on 10 Mar 2022. This question was also asked by anon-320560, anon-323371.
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      Victoria Fawcett answered on 10 Mar 2022:

      Thank you for your question 🙂

      I have always enjoyed doing Maths at school so this is what I wanted to do for a long time. It was only during my A levels, where I took Physics, that I started to really enjoy Physics as well as maths (thanks to my amazing Physics teachers!) so I decided to do both Maths and Physics at University 🙂
      When I was at Uni, I realised it was actually the Physics that I was enjoying more, but back then I wanted to be a Particle Physicist! It was only during my Masters project, which I did on exoplanets, that I started to love Astronomy and I knew that was what I wanted to do for my career.
      I have always loved looking at the stars and the moon in the night sky though 🙂

      Basically, don’t worry if you are not sure what you want to do yet, just keep doing what you love and it will all work out!

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