The Pale Blue Dot w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]If you're an alien, first coming upon our solar system, Earth would be barely noticed by you. You'll notice Saturn, you'll notice Jupiter, and you'll say, "What are these balls of rock orbiting closer to the sun?" Carl Sagan made a big point of this back in 1990 when he talked about the pale blue dot. He convinced Voyager, but he convinced NASA to have Voyager, when it passed Neptune, [music] the last planet in the solar system, he convinced Voyager to turn its camera back towards Earth. And it's what basically amounts [music] to Earth's first Earth selfie. And that picture was taken, and there was these pale blue dots sitting in this in this void.

[00:00:27][music] And he wrote a whole book on this.