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Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe Together
Our current view of the universe, to quote Albert Einstein, is "not weirder than we do imagine, but weirder than we can imagine." That said, we have no choice but to observe the universe through human eyes and brains. How can we even start to make sense of it?
One answer might be to call in the artists. For thousands of years, people have used art to explore ideas that humble, confuse or even frighten us. A new exhibition opening in Pasadena continues this tradition, bringing artists and astronomers together to create original pieces of art.

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Cambridge don John Barrow interprets links between the arts and science. His 1995 book, The Artful Universe, explored the way in which our aesthetic sense is moulded by the physical structure of our environment. In Cosmic Imagery, Barrow argues that certain images have been particular markers of scientific progress. He chooses a topic the cosmic microwave background radiation, for example and selects an image to accompany the text: in this case, the heat spectrum measured by NASA probe Cobe.

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NASA Lunar Art Contest Winners Announced
A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam won the first annual NASA Lunar Art Contest sponsored by NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Va.
A work by Justin Burns, a sophomore at the University of Memphis, depicts a cartoon-like motorcyclist on her air cushioned bike leading a long line of traffic in a tube stretching across the otherwise barren lunar landscape. A city under a dome stands in the background.

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Space exploration equipment from the School of Physics and Astronomy is forming part of a new exhibition at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
Mars in their Eyes is an exhibition of 80 cartoons telling the story of space exploration and scientific discovery, past, present and future in a humorous and satirical way.  And for the exhibitions visit to Cardiff, it has been extended to include other aspects of space exploration, including components of space telescopes developed by the Astronomy Instrumentation Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy.  
On Friday 7 March Professor Mike Edmunds, School of Physics and Astronomy will be giving a free lunchtime talk: Life on a young planet: why we need to go to Mars, against the backdrop of the new exhibition.

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Most little boys growing up in the 1960s had big dreams of being firefighters, cowboys and astronauts. Then they grew out of it.
Except for Rick Costello. He was 9 when he ran out of his house one day in 1969, stared up in the sky and said, "Wow, right now there are two guys walking on the moon and one going around the moon!"
At 16, after saving up his money, he bought his first telescope for $100 and began teaching himself everything he could about astronomy.
Then he became a bug killer at a pest control company. But in 2000, a heart attack forced him to re-evaluate his life.
Costello quit working and began focusing full time on what has become his life's work.
He paints the galaxy in acrylic and oil, each painting featuring stars, the Earth and the moon. Each painting is astronomically correct: The celestial objects are painted to scale. So far, he has amassed a collection of 16 paintings, including one recently commissioned by NASA that will be hung in the permanent exhibit at the Kennedy Space Centre.

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A steel sculpture, based on one of the most famous objects in chaos theory, has been created by Dr Benjamin Storch, an artist who works with silver and steel. The idea was provided by mathematicians Professor Bernd Krauskopf and Dr Hinke Osinga from the University of Bristol.

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The observed order and consistency in Middle Eastern art is no random pattern, according to some campus researchers who say the ancient geometry is governed by concrete mathematical algorithms that may be able to tune certain lines of thought.
A team of researchers on campus is aiming to study and popularise the intricate historical patterns present primarily in Islamic tile art as they say the geometric patterns behind the art could prove to be a useful learning tool and a cultural art form.
The effort, called the Noor Project, borrows its name from the Arabic word for light and seeks to uncover and animate the mathematical algorithms underlying the characteristic ornamentation of Middle Eastern mosques.

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Artists and scientists, and some who are both, join in the debate in the latest issue of The Biochemist.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, and long before they were around, neither art nor science mattered so much as where the next meal came from. But around 30,000 years ago, early humans suddenly began to make images and, for reasons that have never been very satisfactorily explained, that new set of image-making skills must have been useful, in that it was somehow selected for, and persists to this day. Most of us, even if it was just as kids, have made images: drawings, doodles, or paintings. Sight is a remarkable sense, and it may well be that image making was part of an evolutionary process for obtaining visual knowledge, a way of comprehending our visible environment more effectively and making sense of it.

"Our recognition of two sets of professional practitioners with appropriate training - artists and scientists - each trying to make sense of the world around them, has only been with us for a few hundred years" - Keith Roberts.

"I remain puzzled, even bemused, at the continuing efforts to show that art - particularly the visual arts - are very similar to science both in content and in the creative processes involved" - Lewis Wolpert.

Make up your own mind with a fascinating set of articles that illustrate the meeting point of art, design and science.

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