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launchpadastro:milkdromeduh:fallingpanicdiscoboy:thislifeinfocus:the-future-now:follow @the-future-nowHOLY FUCK THE FEELS. THE CHILLS. @studythesunshineflowersI’m going to scream this is incredible. I want to know everything about her breakthrough, now.Really?! People are posting about a BLIND astronomer, and nobody thought to caption these images (all gifs)? Well here I go. (–ACS)1Text: This astrophysicist lost her sight, so she learned to listen to the stars.Image: Close-up of a woman holding a cane giving a TED talk.2Text: And made a scientific breakthrough.Image: A brightly flashing star.3Text: As a kid in Puerto Rico, Wanda Diaz-Merced dreamt of being an astronautImage: Upwards pan of a city scene with brightly colored buildings4Text: She earned a doctoral degree in astrophysics.Image: Rotating photo of the Milky Way galaxy 5Text: But a long illness let Diaz-Merced blind and threatened her studies.Image: A hand, with fingers tracing over Braille text.6Text: Determined not to give up, she realized she could turn data points into sound.Image: Drawing of twinkling stars7Text: Through sonification, Diaz-Merced was able to pursue a career in astrophysics.Image: Same TED talk, a bit further zoomed out, Diaz-Merced is gesturing as she talks, and has a Mac laptop open on the table in front of her.8Text: By listening to the behavior of stars, she began noticing thigns no one could see, or hear, before.Image: Time lapse photo of the Milky Way galaxy rotating against a foreground of mountains.9Text: Diaz-Merced linked star formation to gamma ray bursts - a new idea in astrophysics.Image: Artist’s conception of flying past stars towards a nebula.10Text: Her work has helped astrophysicists consider sound as a new way of analyzing stars.Image: Same TED talk, now zoomed out to show Diaz-Merced is standing in front of a screen which shows a graphical representation of the sonification, which shows data that is mostly flat (with noise scattering), and one peak towards the right.11Text: “If people with disabilities are allowed into the scientific field, an explosion, a huge titanic burst of knowledge will take place.” –Wanda Diaz-Merced, astrophysicistImage: Background is another time lapse of the Milky Way, this time against a foreground of plants. The text is superimposed on this image in a way to show that it is a direct quote from Diaz-Merced.thank you for the descriptions!content about disabled people should at the very least be accessible to disabled people! -- source link
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