Daniel Hudon's interest in the cosmos has been expanding since he was a kid (in Calgary, Canada) looking at the sky with binoculars, an activity that, even after obtaining multiple post-secondary degrees in the subject, he still considers one of life's great joys, right up there with world travel and World Cup soccer.

He admits to spending, on his first trip to the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, almost as much time outside on the catwalk around the dome observing the dark starlit sky as inside observing the telescope monitors. He would hesitate to visit the prospective Very Very Large Telescope as he might never come home.

When not promoting the universe at Boston University, he tries to plumb the dark matter of his mind for articles in children's science magazines about things that go bump in the cosmic night.