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“The spacecraft went a long way from home, I thought it might be a good idea just after Saturn to have them take one last look homeward.”

“Because of the reflection of sunlight off the spacecraft the Earth seems to be sitting in a beam of light, as if there’s some special significance to the small world, but it’s just an accident of geometry and optics.”

“From this point, our obsession with nationalism is nowhere in evidence.”

Through his television series, Cosmos, Carl Sagan became perhaps the most popular astronomer in American culture. He died in 1996, but his legacy as an astrophysicist, naturalist, and humanist continues to inspire generations.