These materials are accessible to both visually impaired and sighted readers, with materials presenting celestial objects as they appear through visible-light telescopes and in different spectral regions that are invisible to the naked eye.
Touch the Invisible Sky
NASA's Braille book "Touch the Invisible Sky" presents an introduction to modern, multi-wavelength astronomy studies to the sight disabled community.
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Audio recordings of Touch the Invisible Sky.
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Request From Earth to the Universe Braille/Tactile Posters
Celestial objects as they appear through visible-light telescopes and in different spectral regions that are invisible to the naked eye. The posters use a combination of Braille and large-format traditional text, and a variety of tactile textures and symbols. (Please note, these materials are available to educators for use with their organizations. We cannot fill requests for personal use. )
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Audio Podcasts about the Chandra X-ray Observatory & its findings.
A Universe of Notes
This audio explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum makes an analogy between sound and light.
Revised: May 17, 2012