Astronomía no visual

Non-Visual Astronomy is a book tied to a ten-year commitment to overthrow the prejudice that we can only understand the universe through our eyes. The experience of its author, a blind astrophysicist who carries out a project to disseminate astronomy for other blind and visually impaired people, is reflected in this collection of articles, reflections and short stories whose reading culminates with the final certainty that The main mechanism for understanding our place in the universe is not our senses, but our mind. The work covers very different topics related to the observation of space and its exploration, emphasizing that it is currently the large observatories on Earth that collect the data, often at frequencies completely invisible to our eyes, or through space telescopes. , because these data cannot reach the earth's surface in any other way because the atmosphere filters them. Most of the matter or energy that makes up our universe is called "dark", which indicates the ignorance we have about its nature and also about its size. The objective of this work is to help us understand in an entertaining and rigorous way the data of the universe that these observatories are collecting at all times, even though we cannot see it.