Sandy Spring Friends, Blake and Montgomery Blair square off on It's Academic!

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To ...

The title itself channels Carl Sagan, the creator of Cosmos. Sagan had a famous quote about the earth being a “ pale blue dot,” and that the planet was like a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

One account of the feelings elicited by Pale Blue Dot begins in the 17th century, with the French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Pascal was born in 1623, a mere 14 years after Galileo ...

Quote of the Day: “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan (Do it today on Earth Day) Photo by: Elena Mozhvilo, cropped ...

The astronomer who best articulated the incredible potency of seeing our planet as a small spot, is the great Carl Sagan. He described the earth as a pale blue dot, seen in a photo taken at his ...

The multi-faceted band's new tune " Try Not to Die " played a few songs into the set, poetically employing Carl Sagan's famous quote about Voyager 1 's " Pale Blue Dot " portrait of Earth as a ...

Earth is but a tiny light blue dot in this 30 th anniversary version of the iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image. The original photo, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, is now 35 years old ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously wrote that humanity has a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” Today, that quote in all its gravity is ...

Here's the original, 1990 image: The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun.