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- Season 1 The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
- Season 1 One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
- Season 1 Harmony of the Worlds
- Season 1 Heaven and Hell
- Season 1 Blues for a Red Planet
- Season 1 Travellers' Tales
- Season 1 The Backbone of Night
- Season 1 Journeys in Space and Time
- Season 1 The Lives of the Stars
- Season 1 The Edge of Forever
- Season 1 The Persistence of Memory
- Season 1 Encyclopedia Galactica
- Season 1 Who Speaks for Earth?
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Season 1 Episode 7 The Backbone of Night
8.60 60 minutes Humans once thought the stars were campfires in the sky and the Milky Way "the backbone of night."
In this fascinating segment Dr. Sagan takes us back to ancient Greece, when the basic question "what are the stars?" was first asked. He visits the Brooklyn elementary school of his childhood, where this same question is still on students' minds.
