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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Born on this day – Patrick Moore:


Patrick Moore


Astronomer

Writer

Researcher

Radio commentator

TV presenter

March 4, 1923 – December 9, 2012

Credits:

Books:

A Guide to the Moon (1953); Mission to Mars (1955); The Planet Venus (1956); The Voices of Mars (1957); A Guide to the Planets (1960); Stars and Space (1960); A Guide to the Stars (1960); Oxford Children's Reference Library Book 2: Exploring the World (1966); The Amateur Astronomer's Glossary (aka The A-Z of Astronomy) (1966); Moon Flight Atlas (1969); Observer's Book of Astronomy (1971); Challenge of the Stars (1972); Can You Speak Venusian? (1972); How Britain Won the Space Race (1972); The Southern Stars (1972); Mastermind: Book 1 (1973); Watchers of the Stars: The Scientific Revolution (1974); Next Fifty Years in Space (1976); Astronomy Quiz Book (1978); The Scott Saunders series (1970); Bureaucrats: How to Annoy Them (1982); New Observer's Book of Astronomy (1983); Armchair Astronomy (1984); Travellers in Space and Time (1984); Stargazing: Astronomy Without A Telescope (1985); Explorers of Space (1986); The Astronomy Encyclopaedia (1987); Astronomers' Stars (1987); Television Astronomer: Thirty Years of the "Sky at Night" (1987); Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars (1988); Space Travel for the Under Tens (1988); The Universe for the Under Tens (1990); Mission to the Planets (1991); New Guide to the Planets (1993); The Sun and the Moon (1996); The Guinness Book of Astronomy (1995); The Stars (1996); The Sun and the Moon (1996); The Planets (1996); Eyes on the Universe: Story of the Telescope (1997); Exploring the Earth and Moon (1997); Philip's Guide to Stars and Planets (1997); Brilliant Stars (1997); Patrick Moore on Mars (1998); Patrick Moore's Guide to the 1999 Total Eclipse (1999); Countdown!, or, How nigh is the end? (1999); Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars (2000); The Star of Bethlehem (2001); 80 Not Out: The Autobiography (2003); 2004: The Yearbook of Astronomy (2003); Our Universe: Facts, Figures and Fun (2007); Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2011).

Television:

Mark Lawson Talks to... (2013); The Sky at Night (1957–2013); Stargazing Live: Back to Earth (2012); That Sunday Night Show (2011); Destination Titan (2011); Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV (2010); Doctor Who (2010); Starhyke (2009); Chris Moyles Quiz Night (2009); Naming Pluto (2008); The One Show (2008); Those Were the Days (2008); Countdown (2007); We Love 'The Sky at Night' (2007); Timeshift (2005–2006); Apollo 11 A Night to Remember (2006); The Astronomical Patrick Moore (2006); Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals (2005); Richard & Judy (2005); Newsnight (2005); Big Brother (2004); The British UFO Files (2004); This Week (2004); The Truth Behind the Moon Landings (2003); That Was the Week We Watched (2003); This Morning (2003); Britain's Secret UFO Hunters (2002); The Annual BARFTA Awards (2002); Room 101 (2002); Question Time (2002); Heroes of Comedy (2002); Comedy Lab (1998–2002); Our House (2001); Alter Ego (2001); I Love 1970's (2000); Original Copies (1999); Minim (1999); The 100 Greatest TV Moments (1999); Total Eclipse Live (1999); Live & Kicking (1996–1999); McCoist and MacAulay (1998); Television's Greatest Hits (1998); Telly Addicts (1998); The Jack Docherty Show (1998); Have I Got News for You (1998); Red Dwarf A-Z (1998); Gamesmaster (1992–1998); The End of the Year Show (1997); Mastermind: It Started, Now It's Finished (1997); It'll Never Work (1996–1997); Selection Box (1997); Celebrity Squares (1995); Finders Keepers (1995); How We Used to Live (1995); This Is Your Life (1974–1995); A Word in Your Ear (1994); That's Showbusiness (1993); Big Break (1992); Masterchef (1992); Wogan (1987–1992); Going Live! (1992); Plunder (1991); Hudson and Halls (1990); Record Breakers (1979–1989); The Reluctant Cook (1989); Daytime Live (1987–1989); The Groovy Fellers (1989); Open Air (1988); Aspel & Company (1988); Shoreleave (1987); Masterteam (1987); Television: The Magic Rectangle - An Anatomy of the TV Personality (1986); Saturday SuperStore (1983–1986); Blue Peter (1986); Q.E.D. (1986); Windmill (1985); Children in Need (1981–1985); The Saturday Picture Show (1985); The Time of Your Life (1984); Digital Dreams (1983); Blankety Blank (1979–1983); The British Academy Awards (1983); The Paul Daniels Magic Show (1982); The Little and Large Show (1982); The Royal Variety Performance (1981); Did You See..? (1981); Tomorrow's World (1969–1981); Seeing Stars (1980); Morecambe and Wise at the BBC (1979); Face the Music (1972–1979); Lennie and Jerry (1978–1979); Animal Magic (1979); Jackanory (1978); Curriculee Curricula (1978); Saturday Night at the Mill (1978); Just a Minute (1976); The Grand Prix Night of the Stars (1976); It's Patently Obvious (1976); Up Sunday (1973); The Goodies (1973–1980); Ask Aspel (1972); Parkinson (1972); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1971–1976); Braden's Week (1971); Score with the Scaffold (1970); Tom Tom (1969); Dee Time (1969); One Pair of Eyes (1969); The Master (1966); Let's Imagine (1962); Panorama (1959); Studio E (1958).

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Born on this day – Carl Sagan:


Carl Sagan


Astronomer

Planetary scientist

Cosmologist

Astrophysicist

Astrobiologist

Writer

November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

Credits:

Books:

Contact (1985); Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966); Planets (1966); The Cosmic Connection (1973); Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1974); Other Worlds (1975); Dragons of Eden (1977); Broca's Brain (1979); Cosmos (1980); Murmurs of Earth (1983); The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War (1984); Comet (1985); Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1992); Pale Blue Dot (1994); The Demon-Haunted World (1995); Billions & Billions (1997); The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2006); The New Solar System (1981); The Eloquent Essay (2000).

Movies and television:

Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020); Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan (2015); Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014); FanGirl Academy: 101 (2014); Pale Blue Dot (2009); Contact (1997); The Earth Day Special (1990); Cosmos (1980); Voyager Golden Record (1977).

Recommended reading:

3 books by Carl Sagan.


Cosmos

Published 1980.

ISBN-10: 9780345539434
ISBN-13: 978-0345539434

Description:

With a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.

The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason.

Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

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Pale Blue Dot:
A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 0345376595
ISBN-13: 978-0345376596

Description:

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

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Contact

Published 1985.

A science-fiction novel.

ISBN-10: 0671004107
ISBN-13: 978-0671004101

Description:

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.
Who – or what – is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe.
In Contact, he predicts its future – and our own.