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Some 400 years after Galileo, modern telescopes have enabled humanity to"see" what the natural eye cannot. Astronomical images today containinformation about incredibly large objects located across vast distances andreveal information found in "invisible" radiation ranging from radio waves toX-rays. The current generation of telescopes has created an explosion of imagesavailable for the public to explore. This has, importantly, coincided with thematuration of the Internet. Every major telescope has a web site, often with anextensive gallery of images. New and free downloadable tools exist for membersof the public to explore astronomical data and even create their own images. Inshort, a new era of an accessible universe has been entered, in which thepublic can participate and explore like never before. But there is a severelack of scholarly and robust studies to probe how people - especiallynon-experts - perceive these images and the information they attempt to convey.Most astronomical images for the public have been processed (e.g., colorchoices, artifact removal, smoothing, cropping/field-of-view shown) to strike abalance between the science being highlighted and the aesthetics designed toengage the public. However, the extent to which these choices affect perceptionand comprehension is, at best, poorly understood. The goal of the studiespresented here was to begin a program of research to better understand howpeople perceive astronomical images, and how such images, and the explanatorymaterial that accompanies them, can best be presented to the public in terms ofunderstanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the images and the science thatunderlies them.

Aesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the public's perception and understanding of non-traditional imagery from space