Adam Block, astrophotographer at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in Tucson Ariz., has been enamored by the night sky since he received his first telescope at the age of 7. Block talks about his love for astrophotography and how his curiosity of the cosmos grew from a hobby, into a profession.

This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2011.

I am a journalist. I am an editor by heart and a teacher by nature. Photography is a medium in which a story can be told in a single power image, or through a series can take viewers through a visual journey. If...