![]() There, he was the director of he Planetary Studies Library. During most of the later phase of his career, author Sagan served as an astronomy professor at the Cornell University. He even promoted the program called Search for the Extra Terrestrial Intelligence or SETI. Throughout his scientific career, author Sagan advocated the skeptical inquiry of science with the help of scientific methods and pioneered exobiology. Almost all the papers written by author Sagan are archived at The Congress Library, which contain around 595,000 items. After that, he wrote a science fiction book called as Contact, which became the basis of the 1997 movie of the same name. After the success of the television series, author Sagan accompanied it with the Cosmos novel. This series was considered to be the most widely seen series in the American television history and has been watched for around 500 million times across sixty different countries all over the world. Author Sagan has even co-written and narrated the award winning television series of 1980 called Cosmos : A Personal Voyage. His literary career includes a number of popular scientific novels, including Broca’s Brain, The Dragon of Eden, and the Pale Blue Dot. He has even authored, co-authored, edited more than twenty books in his career. ![]() Being an astronomer, author Sagan has published around six hundred articles and scientific papers. ![]() ![]() It has now been accepted after many years of his death. During his time, author Sagan continuously argued on the topic of the hypothesis that the Venus’s surface temperature can be calculated with the help of the greenhouse effect. These were the universal messages which had the potential of being understood if found by any extraterrestrial intelligence. He was even involved in the assembling of the first messages that were sent into the space: the Voyager Golden Record and he Pioneer Plaque. One of his important research work includes the experiment involving the amino acid production from the basic chemicals through radiation. Author Sagan was popular for his contributions in the research works of the extraterrestrial life. He was born on November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, United States and died on December 20, 1996. How big are we? How important is our role, as humans, in the vast universe? Do you think there are other intelligent species out there, other civilizations, maybe millions of years ahead of us in terms of technology, economics, society, everything? What if one of those advanced civilizations contacted us and offered a present? How would a discovery like that change the life on earth? How would people in power react to protect their seats, to protect their bit of nothing which they rule? Carl Sagan explores these questions and many others in a mesmerizing story that, and this I can assure, will make you look at the stars with brand new and wiser eyes.Carl Sagan was a prominent astronomer, astrophysicist, science communicator, author, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and science popularizer in astronomy and natural sciences, hailing from America. "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect". On the other side, skepticism is one of the most valuable tools for those who seek to understand the Universe. It felt like there are events in life that don't need scientific proof for you to know that they were real. It changed my perspective on science and religion.
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