Message from the stars. Cosmic perspectives of humanity

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a world-renowned American astrophysicist and science popularizer, host of the podcast and TV show StarTalk on the National Geographic channel, and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. He is also the author of numerous bestsellers. As an astrophysicist, someone who is closer to the stars and higher above the Earth 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 between people - in order to feel our unity more acutely. In times of peak conflict, the author offers an antidote to hostility - a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science, the main pillars of enlightenment. Deeply reflecting on Earth as a planet and how scientists view the world, we are still capable of re-prioritizing and restructuring 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.