While we made our sculpture we used, thin wood, nails, staples, glue, acrylic black paint and string. Firstly, we drew some ideas of what the sculpture would look like; we were also inspired by the work of Cornelia Parker. We selected our first image which was the Cats eye nebula and our sculpture on cells within the body. We have produced an installation which displays the sculpture pieces based on the structure of the cell...

Seldom is death so beautiful than in outer space. At the core of this magnificent halo is a dying sun-like star, ten thousand times as luminous as our Sun. The outer halo looking like a splash of paint is not a feature of all nebulae. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust where stars emerge or die.

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.

A series of different worlds in the Zoomonibular galaxy, some of which are made up of a close net of smaller cells fused together to form great structures that over millions of years grow into planets

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.

Also known as Manning (after the group who discovered it) is a constellation best seen from the Laourt Galaxy. It is over 3 billion light years away from Earth, formed of eight stars which form a drawn star shape (*). The constellation also has a visit from the Lemet Nebula, a great ball of gas and dust that passes through the constellations centre about every 1.7 million years...

The picture I picked was “Energy from a black hole”; to partner it I chose a “Human skin cell”. I based my work mostly on the human skin cell using blues, reds and purples, for the background I used contrasting colours like with the red I used green. I drew the main big shapes from the cell picture using different textures and ways of presenting the outline of each cell like twisting the tissue paper and rolling it into balls...

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.

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.

I created a piece based on human lung growths. I used many methods to end up with my final piece; some of these include cutting out the lung shape from the cardboard, rolling up different shades of blues and white, placing them around the edges of the lung shape and gluing them. Finally, I painted a suitable background that uses contrasting colours. The image I found that was an outer space – unlike mine which was an inside space- of my picture was called, “Our Sun...