Unseen Astronomy

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Main Author: Trayford, Dr James W.
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Published: 2026
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contents The 2025 UK National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham played host to a session titled "Unseen Astronomy", involving a variety of astronomy researchers in diverse fields. This unique meeting focussed on a number of novel projects exploring alternatives to purely visual means of display in Astronomy, encompassing spheres of education, communication and research, and straddling both accessible and general use applications. The successful inclusion of such a session at a major conference reflects the explosion of interest in multimodal astronomy in recent years, and hints at its transformative potential. Here, I aim to outline and motivate the topic of multi-modal science and consider its exciting potential. I will discuss this in the context of our own work in the area, the community building being undertaken to bring together researchers considering multi-modality, and efforts to impact astronomy at large.
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Trayford, Dr James W.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Physics Education
Physics and Society
The 2025 UK National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham played host to a session titled "Unseen Astronomy", involving a variety of astronomy researchers in diverse fields. This unique meeting focussed on a number of novel projects exploring alternatives to purely visual means of display in Astronomy, encompassing spheres of education, communication and research, and straddling both accessible and general use applications. The successful inclusion of such a session at a major conference reflects the explosion of interest in multimodal astronomy in recent years, and hints at its transformative potential. Here, I aim to outline and motivate the topic of multi-modal science and consider its exciting potential. I will discuss this in the context of our own work in the area, the community building being undertaken to bring together researchers considering multi-modality, and efforts to impact astronomy at large.
title Unseen Astronomy
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Physics Education
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09250