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for whatever reason it feels great to

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touch it

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um i don't know how it how it really

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looks

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um but it feels

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like oh this is what i thought a nebula

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i was born with congenital cataracts

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so what that means is that i had a

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opaque

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film over both of my eyes when i was

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born

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what that resulted in is very blurry

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vision

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blurry images i don't have any sense of

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detail as a blind child

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there weren't a lot of

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accessible materials readily available

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to

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interested in science

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it was something that we would take

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styrofoam

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balls or cups and kind of make the

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planets and you know very rudimentary

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you know concept of what the planets

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look like but when it came to looking at

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an image from a textbook

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that was something that was very

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i was i didn't have access to

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all of these were words and concepts i

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couldn't physically

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grasp on my own

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um to experience it for myself

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as a blind student you're wondering can

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i get justice excited about it as

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everyone else

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this book is entitled touch the universe

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a nasa

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braille book of astronomy

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by

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noreen grice

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which took

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hubble

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and the images that came from humble

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and created

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a

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grey red spot

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and so

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with touch i can actually tell it's not

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a

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within the center of it

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and

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almost just like a number eight

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it's expanded out

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from its uh hemisphere again as as a um

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as a young kid and you hear the word

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nebula

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um

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it's kind of equated to nebulous and you

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think oh there's there's chaos there's

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it's it's just a bunch of stars

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but to see

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through this image that a nebula can

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have a certain order to it

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um a beautiful order to it then this

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hourglass nebula

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shows that that's that's what indeed

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what it looks like

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just

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almost like our milky way it actually

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spirals out with

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almost

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that that spiral out it

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and it's it's it's almost like you you

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want to grab it and almost spin it and

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that's actually what the galaxy is doing

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is is spinning

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um so

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um it's it's it's kind of cool

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it either feels almost like a spider

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with legs but you know that it's it's a

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galaxy in space i felt like i was back

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in you know fifth or sixth grade and

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reliving that experience of the launch

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of hubble and actually getting a chance

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to say hey now i have this access now i

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can experience this excitement for

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myself

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it kind of you know made me feel like a

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kid again

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to be able to say oh this is what a star

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looks like or this is what a telescope

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or this is what our planets look like