Message of the Stars. Cosmic Perspectives of Humanity

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a world-famous American astrophysicist and science communicator, host of the podcast and television show StarTalk on the National Geographic channel, and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. He is the author of numerous bestsellers. As an astrophysicist, someone who is closer to the stars and higher above the ground than we all are, Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a top-down view of the painful points of our civilization — war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, and the differences between people — in order to feel our unity more acutely. At a time when we have reached the peak of contradiction, the author offers an antidote to hostility — a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science, the main pillars of enlightenment. By deeply contemplating Earth as a planet and how scientists view the world, we are still able to reorder our priorities and restructure our system of values. The author reminds us of our place in the vast Universe and how precious life is, and that it is on this maxim that the main truths about the world and humanity are built.