Ever find yourself looking towards the stars? It turns out, you're not alone! The James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning photos require extensive image processing—revealing as much about humanity as about the universe.
acknowledges, colorizing these images “is based on aesthetic preference, making this practice both a science and an art.”identifies specific aspects of the images
that appeal to viewers’ sense of beauty beyond just the choice of colors. She suggests, for example, the creators’ use of shadow and light recalls the “the sublime” aesthetic popularized in 19th-century landscape paintings of the American West, which were meant to inspire wonder and awe in viewers. These aesthetic choices further highlight the ways in which imaging space through telescopes such as the JWST can be considered visual art as much as it is astronomical science.
This leads me to another feature of global digital culture that the attention toward beautiful telescopic images shows: the importance placed on seeing itself. In 2021, a crowd in French Guiana that included representatives from the European Space Agency and NASA watched the launch of the rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope.Cultural historians have pointed out that, particularly in the modern West, sight has gained primacy over the senses of hearing, taste, smell, and touch. As the cultural historian: “Modern Western culture is a culture of the eye.
What’s missing from these approaches? Put simply, seeing is not the only way of knowing the universe. Privileging sight above all other senses can exclude people, especially those with visual impairments, and foreclose other possibilities for fully and deeply appreciating the celestial.
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