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turned billions of stars into a bedtime story humanity could actually believe.
means an american astronomer and science communicator who made the cosmos feel personal, urgent, and worth protecting.
from born 1934 in brooklyn to a garment worker and a homemaker, he fell in love with the sky at the 1939 world's fair and never looked down again.
cosmos viewershipwatched by 500 million people across 60 countries.
voyager pleaconvinced nasa to photograph earth from 4 billion miles.
pale blue dotnamed earth a mote of dust suspended in sunbeam.
nuclear winterhis research helped push cold war disarmament talks.
for instance
cosmos 1980 — 13-part series that made astrophysics a living room event.
contact novel — 1985 book turned 1997 film about first alien contact.
golden record — 1977 voyager time capsule he helped curate for aliens.