2 posts tagged “galaxies”

then this should be in your colletction as well. Sir Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott and Brian May - yes the member of Queen - put together a really comprehensive and easy to read publication that's full of wonder. I have read this twice now and often refer to it to educate myself and to satisfy my need for stimulus. Highly recommended and worth every penny.

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NASA Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers

"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. 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.