Pale Blue Dot is a book by Carl Sagan. First published by Random House in 1994, it is the sequel to the book Cosmos.
Summary[]
Inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of the current knowledge about the Solar System.
Contents[]
- Wanderers: An Introduction
- You Are Here
- Aberrations of Light
- The Great Demotions
- A Universe Not Made for Us
- Is There Intelligent Life on Earth
- The Triumph of Voyager
- Among the Moons of Saturn
- The First New Planet
- An American Ship at the Frontiers of the Solar System
- Sacred Black
- Evening and Morning Star
- The Ground Melts
- The Gift of Apollo
- Exploring Other Worlds and Protecting This One
- The Gates of the Wonder World Open
- Scaling Heaven
- Routine Interplanetary Violence
- The Marsh of Camarina
- Remaking the Planets
- Darkness
- To the Sky!
- Tiptoeing Through the Milky Way
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index