galaxy Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/galaxy/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png galaxy Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/galaxy/ 32 32 Deafness And Space Exploration: A Love Affair Of The Century https://deafniche.com/deafness-and-space-exploration-a-love-affair-spanning-over-a-century/ Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:43:57 +0000 https://deafniche.com/?p=11118 Did you know that we have a comet named after a deaf man? That would be Hassel’s Comet. Did you know that astronomers today would never have had the Harvard Classification Scheme for cataloguing the stars if it wasn’t for a deaf astronomer named Annie Jump Cannon? And not to mention notable deaf astronomers Robert […]

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]]> Real-Time Texting: FCC Announces New Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/ https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:57:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9686 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that starting December 2017 the TTY will be gone. Instead of the TTY, Real Time Texting (RTT) will be put in place. The FCC recognized that an overwhelming number of deaf and hard of hearing use cell phones to communicate with families and friends. With this recognition and […]

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