![]() ![]() And so I asked other kids what they were…. But he previously shared a more detailed account: seemed to me different. The video above tells an abbreviated account of what happened next – the occasion that sparked his life long search of the cosmos. The family took frequent outings to Coney Island and “old photos show Carl lolling on the beach,” notes a biography of the famed astronomer. Sagan himself lived on Bay 37th Street, and, later, Bay Parkway. The video has some fantastic shots of 86th Street and the elevated subway in the 1980s. “I knew my immediate neighborhood intimately every candy store, front stoop, backyard and wall for playing Chinese handball,” he said in the video. Around the time of the airing of the original series, he returned to the neighborhood for a video segment in which he reflected on his first childhood thoughts about the stars and the broader universe. Sagan was born in 1934 and lived with his family in Bensonhurst. ![]() It’s perhaps the most lasting work by cosmologist Carl Sagan, oft-hailed as the best communicator of scientific concepts in the 20th Century. The original series aired in 1980 and was accompanies by a book of the same name. The internet is abuzz this morning after the big-budget debut of the reenvisioned Cosmos series last night, starring Neil deGrasse Tyson. ![]()
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