i'm brenda norrie and i'm the student correspondant for this story. thank you all for being here today. thank you for coming down to be a part of this. i think it's important that we've gone back to the time where we're thinking about what's out there. and we want to care about it and we want to get there and we want to try to understand what's going to be there when we get there. what's taking us so long to get back to this? this is really the study of our origins.and people have this innate curiosity about the universe.but for some reason there hasn't been enough emphasis of it in schools. and what the press now does with the hubble telescope and other observatories is really great. they're bringing the cosmos back to the kids and i like to say that astronomy is the gateway science.it gets kids interested in science and technology. then they go on in fields that are more immediately useful to society. wouldn't you love to have ience teachers like that all the time? get you excited and make you want to go--but talk to me aaron about the notion of stu