When I first started my degree in astrophysics I was surprised at the amount of coding required. There is nobody I know who doesn’t code. It’s all in Python which is a very easy language to use and I am by no means complaining!! I like to code and find it to be really fun and a good way to exercise my brain. Just thought I’d use my platform to talk about what astronomy work actually entails! #astronomy #astrophysics #physics #fyp #academia

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