TOUCH THE INVISIBLE SKY |
Touch the Invisible Sky: A Multi-Wavelength Braille Book Featuring Tactile NASA Images
This unique book combines large print and contracted Braille
with colorful tactile images as seen through the eyes of
multi-wavelength telescopes. Stunning images compare
celestial wonders in visible, X-ray, infrared, ultraviolet
and radio waves and provide views not seen through human
eyes.
Touch the Invisible Sky: A Multi-Wavelength Braille Book Featuring Tactile
NASA Images is 59 pages long
and the images are created by a silk screened
additive on top of color photographs. There are 29 touchable images
(Electromagnetic Spectrum, Hubble Space Telescope Spitzer Space Telescope,
Chandra X-ray Telescope, Radio Telescope on Earth,
The Sun is Visible, the
Sun in Radio, the Sun in Ultraviolet, the Sun in X-ray,
Eta Carinae in
Visible, Eta Carinae in Infrared, Eta Carinae in Radio, Eta Carinae in
X-ray, Crab Nebula in Visible, Crab Nebula in Infrared,
Crab Nebula
Composite, Crab Nebula in Radio, Kepler Supernova Remnant in Visible,
Kepler Supernova Remnant in Infrared, Kepler Supernova Remnant in X-Ray,
Kepler Supernova Remnant Composite, Whirlpool Galaxy in Visible,
Whirlpool
Galaxy in Infrared, Whirlpool Galaxy in X-ray, Whirlpool Galaxy in Radio,
Antennae Galaxies Composite, Antennae Galaxies in Visible, Antennae
Galaxies in Infrared, Antennae Galaxies in X-ray).