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This is the intro! Astronomy began as a visual science. Then, it diversified. New wavelengths, new physics, new computers, new statistics, new math. We maybe stopped appreciating, for a while, how good we are, as humans, at pattern recognition. Our cognitive systems, after all, have evloved over millenia to become better and better at recognizing shapes, colors, and change, faster, and faster.