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In January 2004, NASA announced that the mission was a cancellation of the Hubble Space Telescope. In light of the tragedy associated with Columbia in danger with the previous year, it was too risky. Consequently, it would be the Hubble, praised as one of the most influential scientific instruments of all time, has only a few years in order to survive. In the months after the plan was discussed. Petitions has collected thousands of signatures of members of the public. Congress committee meetings and hearings. The citizens and scientists alike inspired by the discoveries and images had produced the telescope, were obviously not ready for the early retirement of the telescope. Until then, the Hubble had almost fulfilled its mission objectives since its introduction in 1990. With 100,000 observations, was the expansion of the universe, who studied planetary origins measured and generates a great treasure of images as the legendary Deep Field (first seen in this piece) and pillars of creation, that has changed the way we see our place in the universe. These images of science and remastered by astronomers, the public’s imagination captured previously no telescope in a sense. Finally, the servicing mission was back today and the telescope moves a powerhouse of discovery and inspiration. In a way, the telescope was saved by art. Science and technology are often incompatible. In most universities, they are housed in separate buildings. In the library, they are placed in different courses on ice. But astronomy and art are inextricably linked for centuries. In 1610, Galileo published his groundbreaking work “Starry Messenger” – often translated as “Starry Messenger” – has included numerous drawings sketched in the long nights in front of his telescope. Among these, the rugged terrain of the moon, stars with the naked eye, and what would come when the Galilean satellites of Jupiter surrounding known. Galileo took as the perspective and chiaroscuro techniques – to show the high mountains and craters on the imperfect surface of the moon – at the time a way of representation of light and shadow, which was relatively new. With the geometry and its drawings as a measuring stick, it was also able to measure the height with an astonishing precision. Two years later, Lodovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli, noted Florentine painter immortalized Galileo’s sketches of the moon in a fresco, which is in Santa Maria Maggiore as before, a basilica in Rome. In the era before digital CCD cameras and their predecessors, were required plates Photo astronomers artists. Today, when the image of the cosmos, is the first image of a black and white still is taken, and it takes a layering and carefully selected range to take pictures of the pillars of creation to life. Jayanne English professor at the University of Manitoba has issued refining techniques to astronomical data of their career. As a former coordinator of the Hubble Heritage Project in 1998 by a group of astronomers, who worked with a team to create the images and cure, the defense of the Hubble helped. “Public Outreach has had a big impact, and a large proportion of these were figures that showed how great was the telescope,” said the Englishman. “The images, the effects of justification of expenses have had,” he continued. What’s more: “There is this absorption is already in popular culture, tissue,” said English images of the project, which printed on clothing, also showed. In addition to work done with Hubble, NASA provides a direct platform to the public animating the cosmos through art. In 2011, NASA launched Juno, a spacecraft responsible for training and developing the study of Jupiter. Together with a fleet of scientific instruments, an additional program called JunoCam was included. Since his arrival at Jupiter in 2016, of the JunoCam camera images of Jupiter’s giant he has taken every 53 days. The objectives of these images will be selected by the public through online voting, and the raw data and images are processed by amateurs after they have been provided by online JunoCam team. “We wanted to give a chance for the public to participate – not just passive but an active part of operating flight instruments on a spacecraft,” Candice Hansen, a co-investigator for the Juno mission says responsible for the development and management of JunoCam, “We offer the public three entry points depending on their skills. We have experts who want to start with raw data, and others who want to grab the color and play with them in Photoshop, and all is well.” in process, the program scientist has a new perspective on the results. “If we have this dynamic, color images exaggerated, it makes us look more closely at what is in them,” says Hansen. “Even as a scientist, I am of this new vision of Jupiter so excited,” he said, in fact, added amateur rendering of JunoCam images were reproduced in scientific work. to be invited recently, some images JunoCam scientific interest when they were on the planet unusual cyclones poles grouped unexpectedly stable and tight. In 2014, Benedict Diemer, a cosmologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center, launched a joint art project “The fabric of the universe” with Isaac called Facio, then a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the weaves astronomical data in ‘art, to use with the help of computer simulations of the structure of the universe, Diemer and Facio build solid three-dimensional models prints that show how gas and dark matter filaments combine massive galaxy cluster – what astronomers call the cosmic web. The models show similar wall features not seen in two dimensions. “For the most part it comes to thinking in analysis of 2D order, but here is a whole field in astrophysics that the concerns with understanding the cosmic web in 3D,” said Diemer. By using a special frame, braided installations created almost the size of a van, displaying the networking of the cosmic web. “We believe that the art of trying to say how much science, something true about the nature of existence,” they wrote on their cooperation in a 2017 document, “and the end is best artistic representation is used to grasp real data and not just with allegorical concepts. “his art has been in the non-fiction gallery presents in Savannah, Georgia, and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. While the project is mostly intended for public relations, but also influenced Diemer own research in a subtle way, although to locate exactly it is hesitant. “I think certainly all these things influence the direction of my work,” said Diemer. As records are always bigger in astronomy and combining measurements from many types of telescopes, new techniques are needed to cope with the immensity of information. On the basis of principles to create art scientific visualization to see the astronomers are able to work with a new perspective, and perhaps more importantly, share their findings with other scientists clearly than with traditional techniques. “The application of art techniques is definitely influenced the way astronomers see and interact with their data,” said the Englishman. “Can not I do not think [art techniques] in views astronomy stay on one of the sidebar. And ‘really to improve the discovery of science.” Mara Johnson-Groh is a science writer and photographer based on the West Coast, whose work has appeared in Scientific American, NASA, astronomy, outer Hakai and other publications. This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article.
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