大象传媒

When Gary Fildes was a small boy of around five years old, he crawled underneath the family Christmas tree and imagined the lights as twinkling stars. So began a lifelong obsession with the night skies. But - as he told Outlook's Matthew Bannister - growing up in a working class background in the north east of England, his route to becoming an astronomer wasn't an obvious - or particularly easy - journey.

Image: Gary Fildes Credit: Kielder Observatory