The Ship of the Imagination, free from the shackles of space and time, can go anywhere.

More than three decades after the debut of Carl Sagan's groundbreaking and iconic series, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," it's time once again to set sail for the stars.


Many once believed that Earth was stationary and everything rotated around it.


Jupiter's great red spot is a hurricane three times the size of Earth that has been raging for centuries.

Host and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to discover earth's Cosmic Address and its coordinates within the Virgo Supercluster.


The Sun powers the wind, and the waves, and all the life on the surface of our world.

He shares the story of the person who championed an expansive understanding of Earth's place in the universe by presenting Renaissance Italian Giordano Bruno's vision of the universe as a limitless expanse of space and time.

He then makes an exploration into the Cosmic Calendar, which dates back to the dawn of the Big Bang (similar to the presentation from episode 1 of the original series). Time has been compressed into a year-at-a-glance calendar, from the Big Bang to the moment humans first make their appearance on the planet.


The Oort Cloud, made up of frozen asteroids leftover from the formation of the solar system, encloses our solar system.

The episode ends with deGrasse Tyson narrating how he met his mentor Carl Sagan, who hosted the first Cosmos series. The episode included a brief introduction recorded by United States President Barack Obama to describe the "spirit of discovery" that the series aspires to give to its viewers.


Two hundred and fifty years from now, this is how the Earth could appear.




Resources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com,
cosmosontv.com





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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - FOX / National Geographic

EPISODE 01: Standing Up in the Milky Way - March 9, 2014


The Ship of the Imagination sets off through an asteroid field.


Our nearest neighbor, the Moon, has no sky, no ocean, and no life; just the scars of cosmic impacts.


Stars are made up of burning gas, but they look like points of light in the night sky.


Human eyes can only see a sliver of the light in the cosmos, but with the help of an infrared sensor, we can see a rogue planet without a sun, adrift in a perpetual nighttime.


Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces the Cosmic Calendar, on which all of time has been compressed into a year-at-a-glance calendar, from the Big Bang to the moment humans first make their appearance on the planet.


On the Cosmic Calendar, January 1st is the Big Bang, the point from which our entire universe was born.


On March 15 of the Cosmic Calendar, our galaxy, the Milky Way, appears.


Our Sun's birthday is August 31st. On September 21st, life begins. The origin of life is one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries. The first flower blooms on December 28th. At 6:24 AM on December 30th, a large asteroid comes crashing down on planet Earth. The story of humans only begins at the end of the last day on the Cosmic Calendar.




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