Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator...
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Sagan is an American author, television producer, filmmaker, and podcaster. Sagan is the daughter of the writer Ann Druyan and astronomer Carl Sagan.[citation...
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Trek: Voyager. He is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and artist and writer Linda Salzman. At age six, Sagan's greeting, "Hello from the children of planet...
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science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. It was published in 1980 as a companion piece to the PBS mini-series...
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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator. Carl Sagan may also refer to: Carl Sagan Memorial Station, Chryse Planitia, planet Mars;...
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The Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond was founded in 2014 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to further the search for habitable planets...
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Mars Pathfinder (redirect from Carl Sagan Memorial Station)
a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg (23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars...
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resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was interpreted in Sagan's 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot, as representing humanity's...
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The Demon-Haunted World (redirect from Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit)
1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. (Four of the 25 chapters were written with Ann Druyan).: x In it, Sagan aims to explain the scientific method...
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SETI Institute (redirect from Carl Sagan Center)
extraterrestrial intelligence". The institute consists of three primary centers: The Carl Sagan Center, devoted to the study of life in the universe; the Center for Education...
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science studies. Sagan is a son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. He has four siblings. His half-brother Nick Sagan is a science-fiction...
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husband, astronomer Carl Sagan, whom she married on April 6, 1968; the marriage lasted until their divorce in 1981. Salzman Sagan was the mother of author...
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Worlds in Collision (section Carl Sagan)
Velikovsky. The meeting featured, among others, Velikovsky himself and Carl Sagan. Sagan gave a critique of Velikovsky's ideas and attacked most of the assumptions...
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of the 1980s Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019 and was inducted...
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (redirect from Cosmos (Carl Sagan))
thirteen-part, 1980–81 television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian...
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Contact (novel) (category Works by Carl Sagan)
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically...
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currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. Carl Sagan noted that "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only...
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Croatian short film Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan, where he provided the English voiceover for the young Carl Sagan. His other extra work includes his appearance...
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The Sirius Mystery (section Carl Sagan)
Astronomer Carl Sagan touched upon the issue in his book Broca's Brain (1979), seeing problems in Temple's hypothesis. As an example, Sagan believes that...
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planetary science, and space exploration. It was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, and has about 60,000 members from more...
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River, Ethiopia Şağan, Azerbaijan 2709 Sagan, asteroid named after Carl Sagan Sagan (crater), impact crater on Mars named after Carl Sagan Segan, an Aramaic...
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (redirect from Sagan standard)
shortened to ECREE), also known as the Sagan standard, is an aphorism popularized by science communicator Carl Sagan. He used the phrase in his 1979 book...
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Ann Druyan (category Carl Sagan)
science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of...
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Contact (1997 American film) (category Works by Carl Sagan)
directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars...
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Scientific celebrity (section The Sagan Effect)
language popularizers of science and of science communicators are available. Carl Sagan was an accomplished researcher in the field of planetary science by the...
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"A Glorious Dawn" and "We are All Connected", feature appearances from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Stephen Hawking....
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mission. He approached Carl Sagan, who had lectured about communication with intelligent extraterrestrials at a conference in Crimea. Sagan was enthusiastic...
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Benn Jordan (redirect from Pale Blue Dot: A Tribute To Carl Sagan)
Benn Lee Jordan (born October 28, 1979) is an American musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999, his most widely distributed electronic music...
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Coppola filed a lawsuit against Carl Sagan and Warner Bros. Sagan had died a week earlier, and Coppola claimed that Sagan's novel Contact was based on a...
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Kardashev scale (section Sagan's finer classification)
civilization. However, new types (0, IV, V, and VI) have been proposed. In 1973, Carl Sagan discovered Kardashev's work on the classification of civilizations. He...
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