Tagged: Carl Sagan

The Cosmic Calendar: Understanding Humanity’s Fleeting Existence

When we compress the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe into a single year, it paints a humbling picture of how brief and recent our presence is. This “Cosmic Calendar,” popularized by Carl Sagan, offers...

The Kepler Space Telescope: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Cosmic Neighborhood

This image represents the area of the universe scanned and explored by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. Stretching its gaze up to 3,000 light-years away, Kepler has fundamentally changed our understanding of the cosmos by...