Professor Ward-Thompson, who was part of the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium which published the first ever image of a black hole in 2019, said: "When you last saw a shooting star or the Milky Way, how did it make you feel? Did it make you feel small? Did it give you a sense that there is something larger? For me, that’s all part of what makes people realise our planet’s a tiny place in the cosmos and how we’ve got to look after it.