Touch the Sun: A NASA Braille Book

Touch the Sun is a universally designed book with colorful raised images and combined text in print and Braille that explores the dynamic nature of our Sun.

Topics include: size comparison between Earth and the Sun, the interior layers of the Sun, sunspots and their motion, views of the Sun in visible and ultraviolet light, solar eruptions as seen from space based observatories, massive solar storms, and the effect of space weather on Earth.

According to the author, "This book is hot!"

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• 1. Earth and Sun Size Comparison
• 2. The Full Sun
• 3. The Interior Layers of the Sun
• 4. Erupting Prominences
• 5. Comparison of a Prominence and Our Earth
• 6. The Sun with Magnetic Field Lines
• 7. The Sun as seen by the TRACE Satellite
• 8. The Sun with Sunspots
• 9. Sunspots in Motion Over Time
• 10. Size Comparison of Earth and a Sunspot
• 11. Coronal Mass Ejection
• 12. Coronal Mass Ejections Over Time
• 13. Ultraviolet View of the Sun’s Disk
• 14. Close-Up View of the Ultraviolet Sun
• 15. The Sun During a Solar Storm
• 16. Space Weather (Sun, Solar Wind, Earth)
• Final Thoughts