Question: What is the most amazing thing you have found in the universe??

Robert Simpson answered on 21 Mar 2011:

Some of the amazing images I see in the Milky Way Project (a website I run) are amazing. Some of those objects have never be seen before really (www.milkywayproject.org).

If you’re talking about my own personal discoveries – my PhD thesis was about a possible evolutionary diagram for stars. We had the idea that if you make a simple plot of mass against radius for very young stars then you can predict how they will evolve based on such a diagram. If that theory is supported by future evidence it will have been a very cool discovery.