Brunier stitched together over 1200 photos using GigaPan, which is the same software used to create the panorama of Obama's inaugural address. The huge panorama of the universe was originally on display at the Casino of Monte-Carlo in September.
Carl Sagan Day 2009 celebrates the astronomer's would-be 75th birthday. He died in 1996 while the film Contact based on his book was in production. Sagan's vision led him to assemble the Voyager Golden Record and advocate that Voyager 1 take the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photo. He also co-founded The Planetary Society, an organization I have supported as a member for 15 years. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was best known to the public by his Cosmos series on PBS:
If you'd like to visit one of those billions of worlds I mentioned, just respond to this Craigslist ad, and you may find yourself on the next rocket to Titan, as pillownaut reported earlier this week.
I'll leave you with a real quote from Sagan's seminal Cosmos book:
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise.
1 comments:
Beautiful panorama; thank you for sharing it. I also appreciated the link to Cosmos, and chuckled about the "astronot" ad. Thanks!
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