美学和天文学：研究公众对非传统空间图像的感知和理解
Aesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the public's perception and understanding of non-traditional imagery from space
摘要：
在伽利略之后大约400年，现代望远镜使人类能够“看到”自然眼睛无法看到的东西。今天的天文图像包含了位于遥远距离的巨大物体的信息，并揭示了从无线电波到X射线的“不可见”辐射中发现的信息。目前这一代的望远镜已经创造了一个爆炸式的图像可供公众探索。重要的是，这与互联网的成熟不谋而合。每个主要的望远镜都有一个网站，通常有一个广泛的图像库。新的和免费的可下载的工具为公众成员提供了探索天文数据，甚至创建自己的图像。简而言之，一个可访问的宇宙的新时代已经进入，公众可以前所未有地参与和探索。但是，目前严重缺乏学术性和强有力的研究来探讨人们-特别是非专家-如何看待这些图像及其试图传达的信息。大多数面向公众的天文图像都经过了处理（例如，颜色选择、伪像去除、平滑、裁剪/所示的视场），以在突出的科学和设计用于吸引公众的美学之间取得平衡。然而，这些选择对感知和理解的影响程度，充其量也就是知之甚少。这里介绍的研究的目标是开始一个研究计划，以更好地了解人们如何看待天文图像，以及如何将这些图像和伴随它们的解释材料最好地呈现给公众，以理解，欣赏和享受图像及其背后的科学。
英文摘要：
Some 400 years after Galileo, modern telescopes have enabled humanity to "see" what the natural eye cannot. Astronomical images today contain information about incredibly large objects located across vast distances and reveal information found in "invisible" radiation ranging from radio waves to X-rays. The current generation of telescopes has created an explosion of images available for the public to explore. This has, importantly, coincided with the maturation of the Internet. Every major telescope has a web site, often with an extensive gallery of images. New and free downloadable tools exist for members of the public to explore astronomical data and even create their own images. In short, a new era of an accessible universe has been entered, in which the public can participate and explore like never before. But there is a severe lack of scholarly and robust studies to probe how people - especially non-experts - perceive these images and the information they attempt to convey. Most astronomical images for the public have been processed (e.g., color choices, artifact removal, smoothing, cropping/field-of-view shown) to strike a balance between the science being highlighted and the aesthetics designed to engage the public. However, the extent to which these choices affect perception and comprehension is, at best, poorly understood. The goal of the studies presented here was to begin a program of research to better understand how people perceive astronomical images, and how such images, and the explanatory material that accompanies them, can best be presented to the public in terms of understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the images and the science that underlies them.
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