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and never seen it in real life with my own eyes,” first-year student Bilyana Borisova said. Fields was a comet himself moving back and forth across the second floor answering as many questions as he could before going on to another group of curious stargazers.

Alyssa Banarer, Art major, on her favorite museum :

“The museum in the National Mall at Washington D.C. is phenomenal. Go there during the cherry blossom season. Japan gave a gift of a bunch of cherry blossom trees to America and they planted them all around D.C. It’s gorgeous. Everything is all pink and covered in flower petals.”

“This is sort of what defines awe,” Fields said. “ Awe is staring at something that is greater than you."

According to Ryan Kellis, a volunteer and student, the Viewing Night always gets a great turn out. He said that there’s this sense of awe that breaks people’s walls.

“This has made me realize that the problems we are facing right now, within our lives, like our social life, does not really matter because there is such a great world out there,” Borisova said. “Our universe is just amazing.”

The next Viewing Night will be on December 5 for those interested in participating in the star party. "Part of this is to see that there is wonder around you,” Fields said. “At the same time that there’s a whole bunch of really amazing things available to everyone free of charge.”