All Entries in the "Memories" Category
The Known Universe
Danny Ledonne says, “Beautiful stuff – Sagan would want a front row seat.”
Remembering Carl Sagan
Alex Michael Bonnici at The Discovery Enterprise writes:
Today on Discovery Enterprise we commemorate the memory of Carl Sagan who died an untimely death thirteen years ago today. Carl Sagan, was an astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence [...]
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch…
To celebrate Dr. Sagan’s birthday, Joe and Julie from St. Louis made an apple pie and this photo essay from scratch.
God, the Universe and Everything Else
Here is a video of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. Clarke talking about everything and everything’s beginning. It consists of questions and answers. The first point that Carl Sagan makes in this video is about questions and answers. He goes on to talk about answers in his own answers.
Galaxy Garden.
Regular Celebrating Sagan contributor Larry Klaes sent an email notifying us about the new ‘Galaxy Garden’ website.
The Galaxy Garden is a 100-foot diameter outdoor scale model of the Milky Way, mapped in living plants and flowers and based on current astrophysical data.
Artist Jon Lomberg conceived and designed the garden to encourage scientific education about our [...]
Altair VI: Sagan on Mars Landing Sites
Journalist Larry Klaes sent us this link at Altair VI, where David Portee’s wrote an excellent blog post about Sagan’s roll in determining landing sites for a Mars lander.
Carl Sagan, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, and Paul Swan, Senior Project Scientist at Avco Corporation, published results of their study of possible Voyager Mars [...]
Planet Walk.
From the Sagan Gathering:
An Essay.
All apologies to Audrey who wrote this essay. She originally wrote it for the blog-a-thon, back in December ‘06, and unfortunately it fell through the cracks. Thanks go to Joel, though, for finding a home for the essay here, on Celebrating Sagan.
Ten years ago, the world lost a great man, astronomer, and teacher. Last month, [...]
Marriage, Sagan, and the Canary Islands
Hi,
This is Panta from Canary Islands, Spain.
Here is my little contribution to your memory, Mr. Sagan.
When I got married I wrote my future wife a text becoming from Cosmos :
‘En la inmensidad del tiempo y la infinitud del tiempo mi alegría escompartir un lugar y una época contigo’
Thanks for so many specials moments Doc.
I will [...]
Carl Sagan Gathering article in this week’s Ithaca Times
Larry Klaes wrote an article about the Sagan Gathering for the Ithaca Times this week. Check it out here or just read on below.
A Organizational Voyage
By Larry Klaes
Cornell University professor and world-renowned astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan unquestionably is one of Ithaca’s most well-known former residents, having lived in this town from his arrival [...]
