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 TV show StarTalk on 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, that is, someone who is closer to the stars and higher above the ground than all of us, Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a top-down view of the painful points of our civilization—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, and differences among people—to more sharply feel our unity. In times 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. Reflecting deeply on Earth as a planet and on how scientists view the world, we are still capable of reprioritizing and restructuring our value system. 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.