The Same Color Illusion
Image Credit:
Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia
Are squares A and B the same color? They are!
To verify this, look at the image above.
The featured illusion, an example of the
same color illusion, illustrates that
purely human perceptions in science may be
ambiguous or inaccurate, even such a seemingly direct
perception as relative color.
Similar
illusions exist on the
sky, such as the
size of the Moon near the horizon,
or the
apparent shapes of astronomical objects.
The advent of automated, reproducible measuring devices such as
CCDs
have made science
in general and
astronomy in particular less prone to,
but not free of,
human-biased
illusions.