Few have done as much as Carl Sagan, who died 26 years ago today, to bring science to the public.
Recently, I wrote about the legacy of his most ambitious project -- the remarkable novel (and later movie) "Contact": #CarlSaganDay #Contact
https://nautil.us/a-surprising-side-of-carl-sagan-238509/

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan What or who inspires you to dare mighty things? #CarlSaganDay pic.twitter.com/zcg09XzRac https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1590457083945963522

Today would have been Car Sagan's 88th birthday. didn't know who he was until after he passed away, but Carl is one of the biggest influences in my life. His approach to the Cosmos is a real inspiration and comfort to me. #CarlSaganDay #CarlSagan

"...that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

#CarlSaganDay

Carl Sagan was born #OTD in 1934. Science-minded as he was, he also explored the boundaries of science and faith -- notably in the novel and film Contact, as I wrote recently in Nautilus:
https://nautil.us/a-surprising-side-of-carl-sagan-238509/ #CarlSaganDay #science #Contact

Carl Sagan’s planetary science work touched the lives of people worldwide. In this Spanish-language @NASA_Es video made in his honor, @NASAPeople give their own inspiring advice to dream chasers. Watch the interviews with English subtitles: https://go.nasa.gov/2p1D0ao  #CarlSaganDayhttps://twitter.com/nasa_es/status/1193181951408181250 … https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1193249501231951872