In the wake of NASA’s exciting Voyager 2 discoveries, we honor the birthday of one of society’s most prominent astronomy figures: Carl Sagan. In addition to his role as a worldwide leader of ...

Carl Sagan at his Cornell University laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1974. Santi Visalli, Inc./Archive Photos via Getty Images On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but ...

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Students, professors, alumni and stargazers alike gathered in Kennedy Hall on Nov. 9 to celebrate the life and legacy of Carl Sagan in a 90th birthday celebration hosted by the Carl Sagan Institute.

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the search for life beyond Earth. Carl Sagan (New York, 1934), one of the most ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

We live in Carl Sagan’s universe–awesomely vast, deeply humbling. It’s a universe that, as Sagan reminded us again and again, isn’t about us. We’re a granular element. Our presence may even be ...

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Feb. 26, 2018 An image purportedly showing famed astronomer Carl Sagan holding a sign reading "No Billboards i ... Jan. 23, 2017 A quote from a 1995 book by the late astronomer and science ...

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — After a long day of rehearsing for her upcoming world tour, Katy Perry decided to peruse a few books to help her unwind before bed. “I was listening to ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan ...

Carl Sagan. Astronomer. Astrophysicist. Cosmologist. Writer. Great guy. Personal hero. He was born November 9, 1934. Happy Birthday, Dr. Sagan—we miss you. We need more people like you on the planet.

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62. What most people don’t know about Sagan, and what has been somewhat ...