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

This image is an Angiogram of a blocked Coronary Artery...

Over a thousand years ago a bright new object was seen in the sky. Over the course of a few days the object glowed brighter than the planet Venus. Astronomers now know this was because a star had died in a massive explosion we call a supernova. As the star died, it spat out particles at millions of miles an hour creating this huge puffball.

What does a cow look like before it is born? The tiny ball of cells pictured here (the embryo) show no signs of their future form. The blue spheres are nuclei (containing DNA) inside cells. Red marks are tags on DNA that keep genes quiet until they are needed for development. The core of the embryo here seems to have more silent genes.

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

My picture is a newly discovered galaxy...

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

The colour of this made me think of a urine sample, showing a terminal virus, that attacks animals and humans...

What is a sunspot? Although darker and cooler that the rest of the Sun, the temperature of a sunspot is still hot enough to melt diamonds. Sunspots only last for a few days, but can be bigger than the Earth. This close-up shows a sunspot (darker region) surrounded by bubbles or granules on the Sun’s surface.

For research purposes cells are often frozen so they can be more easily studied than in live animals. These white blood cells from a mouse were taken from a special organ called the thymus, where blood cells grow up. Here scientists are looking at a particular gene (shown in pink) that helps white blood cells to fight infection.

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

Your lungs can spread out across a tennis court and have around 1500 miles of tiny air sacs. As cells die they are replaced. Across the massive surface area of your lungs, there is considerable opportunity for the repair system to mess up. The CAT scan here pictured displays growths (top left hand side of the image) which are quite rare but can develop into cancer.

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

In a galaxy two billion light years away...