Saturday, February 19, 2005
BBC| Hubble pics 'like romantic art'
By Paul Rincon
An art expert says Hubble telescope images are a modern proxy for romantic 19th Century landscape paintings - carefully balancing art and reality. Hubble's raw images are carefully processed to produce the stunning colour representations that appear on the front pages of newspapers.
Elizabeth Kessler says the scientists who do this often make choices that suggest geological features on Earth. She presented her ideas at a major science conference in Washington DC....
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An art expert says Hubble telescope images are a modern proxy for romantic 19th Century landscape paintings - carefully balancing art and reality. Hubble's raw images are carefully processed to produce the stunning colour representations that appear on the front pages of newspapers.
Elizabeth Kessler says the scientists who do this often make choices that suggest geological features on Earth. She presented her ideas at a major science conference in Washington DC....
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