Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on why “special” is the wrong word — and what twentieth-century astrophysics put in its place. In this segment, Neil walks through the move that most people miss in Carl Sagan’s legacy: the cosmic perspective is not a demotion of human importance. It is a relocation of where the awe actually lives. The ingredients in your body were forged in stars that died billions of years ago. Same atoms, opposite emotional payload.