Two decades ago, I began studying physics at ETH Zürich, driven by the desire to understand the world around us. Along the way, I drifted into the depths of mathematics and the excitement of AI — and somewhere in that journey, physics slipped a bit into the background. Recently, though, my group and I have reconnected with the field through new collaborations, at UHH and beyond, and it has been genuinely rewarding to put my skills to use again. The most recent highlight is our astrophysics paper, which just appeared in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The astrophysicists on the team certainly carried the project to the stars, but it was a joy to be part of it.