Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Episode: “Standing Up in the Milky Way”
Season 1, Episode 1 Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2014
Episode Synopsis: Cosmos Episode 1, A reboot of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos,” the 1980 PBS series that explored all aspects of the universe, is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and begins with a look at the work of 16th-century Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno and a walk across the “Cosmic Calendar,” a football field-size time line that starts with the Big Bang and ends with humans’ first appearance on Earth.
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