We Are Made of Stardust
This brief quote by the late Carl Sagan is wonderfully illustrated in the beautiful and poignant short film “Stardust,” directed by Mischa Rozema of Amsterdam-based media company PostPanic. Using...
View ArticleA Valentine From Voyager
Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as seen by Voyager 1 on Valentine’s Day in 1990 (NASA) On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of travel through the outer Solar System, NASA’s...
View ArticleSay Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Mosaic of Saturn seen in eclipse in September 2006. Earth is the bright dot just inside the F ring at upper left. (CICLOPS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up:...
View ArticleAs It Turns Out, We Really Are All Starstuff
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars," Carl Sagan famously said in his 1980 series...
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