Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈsɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. His contributions were central to the discovery of the high surface temperatures of Venus. However, he is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages that were sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.

He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.

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Carl Sagan

by: Blue Sky Black Death

I'm not in pictures that your parents took
I'm not described in your stack of holy books
I wasn't born in your seven day
I'm not the monster your fathers made
Can't break my bones if you can't pronounce my name
I'll elude what your top thinkers might conceive
Your "wanted" sketch doesn't resemble me
I don't want blood or your charity
You won't believe that your maker thought me up
Your common cold is my Trojan horse defeat
And my fine cuisine is your world catastrophe
I might be dormant on your ocean floor
Or in the margins of error you ignore




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Comets, Orbits, and the Mystery We Are: The Enchanted Celestial Mechanics of Australian Artist Shane Drinkwater

Brainpickings 26 Mar 2025
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion,” Carl Sagan told his best interviewer. “That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.” ... We make art ... wonder, beauty, love ... newsletter ... .
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Some Science Is Easy To Mock, But It Might Have Saved Your Life

IFL Science 24 Mar 2025
ADVERTISEMENT ... It took a long campaign by scientists, including Carl Sagan’s Book Contact and the film made from it, plus large donations from wealthy supporters, for the project to recover, even after Proxmire apologized.  ... ADVERTISEMENT ... .
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Hixon Dance to explore space in science-inspired 'Frontiers' production

The Columbus Dispatch 20 Mar 2025
'Dancing with the Stars ... Provided by DWTS ... Main St ... “Entangled” features commissioned writings by Mack and playwrights Mackenzie Worrall and Chris Leyva, with additional writings by Noam Chomsky and Carl Sagan incorporated into the work.
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How We Can Reinvent Ourselves Every Day

The Times of India 18 Mar 2025
The saying that you can never step into the same river twice, as the flowing river is constantly changing, is doubly true ... Like Carl Sagan earlier, Levitt concludes that we, literally, are made of star stuff. And when we die, our atoms live on.
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American painter Aaron Johnson opens third exhibition at Gana Art Hannam in Seoul

Korea Times 18 Mar 2025
28. Courtesy of Bereket Alemayehu. By Bereket Alemayehu ... “I think about the cosmic origins of life on Earth, and like the astrophysicist Carl Sagan says, all the particles in our bodies are from exploded stars in the past, from eons ago," he said.
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Lunar eclipse spotting at Cornell: Here's how it looked and when to see the next one

Ithaca Journal 14 Mar 2025
this morning. "The 'blood' moon of a total lunar eclipse comes from the same phenomenon as red-orange sunsets," Carl Sagan Institute Research Assistant at Cornell University, Gillis Lowry, said Friday morning ... What causes a lunar eclipse?.
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‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond earth, leading space scientist says

AOL 14 Mar 2025
... hoping to mine the institution’s archives for clips from previous years, including the lectures by the American astronomer Carl Sagan, to explore how our understanding of space has changed.
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Were it exploding stars that wiped out life on earth—twice? Scientists say yes

The Times of India 13 Mar 2025
The same iron in your blood and calcium in your bones was once forged in the heart of a dying star.This is what astronomer Carl Sagan meant when he famously said, “We are made of star stuff.” But ...
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Carl Sagan Made A Worrying Prediction About America's Future 30 Years Ago

IFL Science 11 Mar 2025
Around 30 years ago, Dr Carl Sagan made an eerily prophetic prediction about the future of the US, appearing to foretell the rise of big tech, misinformation, and superstition.  ... Sagan is best ...
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