Professor Chris Lintott

I started watching The Sky at Night while still at school.

I was incredibly fortunate and went to a school blessed not only with a large telescope, but with teachers brave or foolhardy enough to give the keys to my friends and me. Access to such a large telescope fuelled my love for the subject, and sent me to Magdalene College Cambridge for a degree in Natural Sciences, followed by a PhD in the chemistry of star formation at University College London.

Around the time I began my PhD I was recruited to The Sky at…