The Ship of the Imagination, free from the shackles of space and time, can go anywhere.
More than three decades after the debut of Carl Sagan's groundbreaking and iconic series, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," it's time once again to set sail for the stars.
Many once believed that Earth was stationary and everything rotated around it.
Jupiter's great red spot is a hurricane three times the size of Earth that has been raging for centuries.
Host and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to discover earth's Cosmic Address and its coordinates within the Virgo Supercluster.
The Sun powers the wind, and the waves, and all the life on the surface of our world.
He shares the story of the person who championed an expansive understanding of Earth's place in the universe by presenting Renaissance Italian Giordano Bruno's vision of the universe as a limitless expanse of space and time.
He then makes an exploration into the Cosmic Calendar, which dates back to the dawn of the Big Bang (similar to the presentation from episode 1 of the original series). Time has been compressed into a year-at-a-glance calendar, from the Big Bang to the moment humans first make their appearance on the planet.
The Oort Cloud, made up of frozen asteroids leftover from the formation of the solar system, encloses our solar system.
The episode ends with deGrasse Tyson narrating how he met his mentor Carl Sagan, who hosted the first Cosmos series. The episode included a brief introduction recorded by United States President Barack Obama to describe the "spirit of discovery" that the series aspires to give to its viewers.
Two hundred and fifty years from now, this is how the Earth could appear.
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