This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Tonsilrainbowlitis Virus created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

My picture started as a mystic rose pattern...

Did you ever wonder how many other suns there are in the Universe? In about five billion years our Sun might look a bit like this unusual cloud of gas and dust called the Spirograph nebula (IC 418). A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space where stars are born or have died.

All over the surface of your skin are squashed keratinocytes (care-ah-tin-oh-site), cells that make the protein keratin, the stuff of your hair and nails. These cells are an important protection against the outside world. You shed them daily. Within a month your body has made a new layer.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Red Hole created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

Far away, in a galaxy not yet researched lies the Red Hole...

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Stomach Explosion created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

This is what I imagine the inside of my stomach looks like when I have eaten to a Kebab...

Casseopeia (Cass-ee-o-pee-ya) is a constellation next to the Plough and Orion named after the mythological Queen of Ethiopia. Shaped as a neat W or M, formed by five bright stars, it is also home to the youngest exploded star - Casseopeia A.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the SKin Cell Fighting Cancer created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

Scientists guess that if cars were as fuel-efficient as black holes, they could travel more than a billion miles on a gallon of petrol. Black holes are invisible because their extreme gravity sucks everything in, including light. They’ve been noticed because they have a habit of swallowing things, which then spew out a lot of energy.

How were you conceived? Each one of us is the result of a single event, the meeting of male and female sex cells. Fertilisation occurs when the DNA in both egg and sperm comes together, but this doesn’t form a single nucleus. The nucleus of each parental cell is clearly visible in this microscopic image.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Red Giant created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

My chosen image is a red giant...