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July 22, 2013

It’s Time to Get Going Again: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Resurrects Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson is giving the late Carl Sagan a fitting tribute by hosting a new 13-part docu-series called “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” on FOX.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson may have declined Carl Sagan’s recruitment offer at Cornell as a young man, but Tyson is now giving the late science icon a fitting tribute by hosting a new 13-part docu-series called “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” on FOX.

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