Hearing the Stars

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Can we hear and touch the stars, if we can’t see them? Yuma Decaux is trying to put the night sky into everyone’s hands, through technology and engineering. Find out how stargazing captured Yuma’s imagination when he was six, and how losing his sight inspired him to explore the cosmos in a whole new way - making astronomy accessible to everyone.

Astreos, Yuma’s app, is currently in Beta. That means that when you try it out, you can give Yuma feedback on how to make it better! Download it on iOs here: https://astreos.space/

Listen to our bonus interview episode with Yuma to learn more about how he developed Astreos and what accessibility means to him. You can hear it when you support us on Spotify or on Patreon at patreon.com/tumblepodcast.

There are free resources, including a transcript, about this episode on the blog on our website, sciencepodcastforkids.com.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number # 2148711 - Engaging Blind, Visually Impaired, and Sighted Students in STEM with Storytelling through Podcasts.

Sounds in the episode are courtesy of Astreos and Cricket Ambi by VMan533 on freesound.org

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:03.0	And I'm Marshall, welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:07.8	Today we're looking to the sky to explore the cosmos in a whole new way.
0:12.8	Ooh, we're sending El Pact as this time.
0:15.2	El Pact Astronauts.
0:16.8	No.
0:19.2	We're gonna find out how we can star gaze by sound and learn how one computer scientist
0:27.0	is looking to open up the universe for everyone.
0:31.4	Neptune.
0:34.4	Aquarius.
0:36.4	Saturn.
0:37.4	Magnifying.
0:38.4	What are we listening to and what's a robot voice?
0:42.6	Can you tell we're flying into Saturn?
0:45.4	Into Saturn?
0:46.4	I don't want to fly into Saturn.
0:47.4	We'll get crushed.
0:48.4	Oh no.
0:49.4	Marshall, come down.
0:51.4	This is a safe way to explore our solar systems.
0:54.2	Oh, yeah, I just noticed that we're not literally in a spaceship right now.
0:58.7	We are in fact in our studio just recording.
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