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These are the snows of yesteryear, the pristine remmants of the origin of the solar system, waiting frozen in the interstellar dark.
These are the snows of yesteryear, the pristine remmants of the origin of the solar system, waiting frozen in the interstellar dark.
About this book
Explores the fascinating realm of comets answering questions raised by their appearance and delving into the superstitions surrounding them.
Themes & subjects
CometsHalley's cometKometComets.New York Times reviewedComètes
First published 1985Setting
Halley's cometComète de Halley
About the authors
Carl Sagan
9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications. <q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” </cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>
Ann Druyan
1949
Ann Druyan is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name. She directed episodes of both series. In the late 1970s, she became the creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, which produced the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. She also published a novel, A Famous Broken Heart, in 1977, and later co-wrote several be…
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