[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:04:53 -0800
Wow, it is no wonder I've never enjoyed my science classes, always
visual, plus had instructors who never had blind students as well, and
I still do, and one of them doesn't speak English very good, or at
least his accent is so thick, I can't understand what he is saying.
I've always wondered what our world is like, and what we are like,
scientifically, gonna check into this book, sounds fascinating.
Fascinating what the moon crescent looks like.
On 1/15/08, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow, thanks, I'll definitely check into it.
>
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrie Karnos
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:24 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille
> for Blind Readers
>
>
> Since this is available through the NFB and other sources, and because the
> pages have different textures, it doesn't look like a good candidate for
> Bookshare, but I thought that some people might be interested in it. If
> anyone does get it, please let me know what you think. (I'm a big astronomy
> buff).
>
> Just an FYI, Carrie
>
>
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> NASA UNVEILS COSMIC IMAGES BOOK IN BRAILLE FOR BLIND READERS
>
> BALTIMORE - At a Tuesday ceremony at the National Federation of the
> Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by
> its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
>
> "Touch the Invisible Sky" is a 60-page book with color images of
> nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes that captured the
> original pictures. Each image is embossed with lines, bumps and other
> textures. These raised patterns translate colors, shapes and other
> intricate details of the cosmic objects, allowing visually impaired
> people to experience them. Braille and large-print descriptions
> accompany each of the book's 28 photographs, making the book's design
> accessible to readers of all visual abilities.
>
> The book contains spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope,
> Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and powerful
> ground-based telescopes. The celestial objects are presented as they
> appear through visible-light telescopes and different spectral
> regions invisible to the naked eye, from radio to infrared, visible,
> ultraviolet and X-ray light.
>
> The book introduces the concept of light and the spectrum and explains
> how the different observatories complement each others' findings.
> Readers take a cosmic journey beginning with images of the sun, and
> travel out into the galaxy to visit relics of exploding and dying
> stars, as well as the Whirlpool galaxy and colliding Antennae
> galaxies.
>
> "Touch the Invisible Sky" was written by astronomy educator and
> accessibility specialist Noreen Grice of You Can Do Astronomy LLC and
> the Museum of Science, Boston, with authors Simon Steel, an
> astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in
> Cambridge, Mass., and Doris Daou, an astronomer at NASA Headquarters,
> Washington.
>
> "About 10 million visually impaired people live in the United States,"
> Grice said. "I hope this book will be a unique resource for people
> who are sighted or blind to better understand the part of the
> universe that is invisible to all of us."
>
> The book will be available to the public through a wide variety of
> sources, including NASA libraries, the National Federation of the
> Blind, Library of Congress repositories, schools for the blind,
> libraries, museums, science centers and Ozone Publishing.
>
> "We wanted to show that the beauty and complexity of the universe goes
> far beyond what we can see with our eyes!" Daou said.
>
> "The study of the universe is a detective story, a cosmic 'CSI,' where
> clues to the inner workings of the universe are revealed by the
> amazing technology of modern telescopes," Steel said. "This book
> invites everyone to join in the quest to unlock the secrets of the
> cosmos."
>
> "One of the greatest challenges faced by blind students who are
> interested in scientific study is that certain kinds of information
> are not available to them in a non-visual form," said Marc Maurer,
> president of the National Federation of the Blind. "Books like this
> one are an invaluable resource because they allow the blind access to
> information that is normally presented through visual observation and
> media. Given access to this information, blind students can study and
> compete in scientific fields as well as their sighted peers."
>
> The prototype for this book was funded by an education grant from the
> Chandra mission and production was a collaborative effort by the NASA
> space science missions, which provide the images, and other agency
> sources.
>
> For more information on NASA's Great Observatories, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov
>
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