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the year's biggest meeting of

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astronomers was the site of a special

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unveiling an image seen countless times

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before by scientists studying the night

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sky

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but nothing like this

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i think it's very important to make

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things accessible for everyone i feel

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uncomfortable when there's materials

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that are just for

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people who are blind versus everybody

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else

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so using some grant money from a special

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hubble archival research project the

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space telescope science institute here

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in baltimore maryland teamed up with

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braille author norwen grice to give the

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visually impaired an unprecedented view

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of the iconic carina nebula

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it's a mishmash of starburst and star

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death and everything in between lots of

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cloud structures now the challenge was

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to figure out which of these features to

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emphasize and which ones to maybe not

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include to make sure that the image

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wasn't confusing but figuring out what

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textures should represent the different

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parts of the nebula was just one

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challenge image designers had to

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overcome

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kids were assembled for a camp and we

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did have them test various prototypes so

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we could figure out what was working and

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what wasn't working we had a large

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version we had a medium-sized version

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and then we had a more compact version

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and what we learned is that the more

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compact versions seem to be the most

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effective at providing just the right

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amount of information so that's what we

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ended up with

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all lessons learned gries and mutchler

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hope will help in future projects it's

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much better to make materials that

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everyone can use

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it brings people together so classmates

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are equal peers and scientists are equal

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colleagues equality that will help make

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the universe a sight for everyone to see

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from the space telescope science