When I hear the word sublime I automatically think of something that will awestruck me with beauty and peculiarity. Usually when I think of something that will awestruck me I think of nature and vast places such as the 7 wonders of the world or the  view from the top of cliff/mountain. In the Introduction to Romanticism and Introduction to the Gothic, it says many people were awed by nightmare like terrors especially in literature, unknown things like space and violent acts. Something that I always seem to awe me are the night sky and the stars. When I look up at space, I see a vast black area where many things can appear such as constellations, the moon, the sun, clouds etc. The fear that results from looking at the night sky is things that are still a mystery to us. Even with all the advancements in technology that we have now, we still are yet to fully comprehend the entirety of space. It is scary because you don’t know what can come out of space, are there more star like things? Is there life? Even when new things are being discovered they are often still unidentified. It inflicts different feelings in people between wanting to admire the beauty of the unknown, but also being terrified by what can appear in space. I think it’s strange to think about how the stars burn and some are just hollow pieces of gases. The stars in the night sky are fascinating to look at, but also scary to think about. What if they all fell at once, what would happen then. Science helps explain some unknowns of space, but there are still unanswered questions. Despite the numerous advancements in technology we still cannot fully comprehend what is in space.Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful says that our sublime comes from passion, terror, obscurity and power. We don’t fully know what it is in space and we keep discovering new things. It makes me wonder if there are other forms of life in the Universe that are similar to humans. It’s a little freaky, for lack of a better word, to think about what else lies in Space, but it still awes me how things can still be discovered.