![]() ![]() ![]() We start off with a brief review of the constellations, those star-patterns that humans have found mythic pictures in, though not the same pictures from culture to culture. Also, this week’s episode reprises a line of old-school Carl Sagan narration that has become something of a nerd touchstone - which we’ll get to later. This week, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is determined to get cute with its episode title: “Sisters of the Sun” is about our sun’s stellar sisters - all the other types of stars out there - but the episode is also about the women at Harvard who, in the early decades of the 20th century, made key discoveries about those stars, what they’re made of, and how they’ll eventually die.
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