Cosmos Reboot on Fox and National Geographic Channel

Carl Sagan’s stunning “Cosmos” series is being updated for a return to television, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.  It will premiere on Fox March 9 and be rebroadcast on the  National Geographic Channel.  Bill Moyers writes:

deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist with a gift of explaining complicated ideas simply, says the newCosmos will continue Sagan’s “epic exploration of our place in the universe,” and examine new discoveries of the past four decades.

“We have other stories to tell beyond the ones that went on back then …  At the time of the original series, there were no known planets outside of those orbiting the sun.  Right now, we’re rising through 1,000 planets happily orbiting stars that are not the sun.  So that’s not simply new science.  It’s new vistas of thought and imagination,” deGrasse Tyson told Bill Moyers in an interview.

In the meantime, take a look at the original series and the extraordinary online archive of Sagan materials at the Library of Congress.