Gallery: 9 Stunning Images From the First Two Episodes of Cosmos
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The Spaceship of the Imagination, which Neil deGrasse Tyson pilots in *Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey*. The ship was redesigned from Sagan's original in *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage*. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)
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The Spaceship of the Imagination travels through space and time, allowing Tyson to bring viewers to distant galaxies--and far into the history and future of our own planet and the cosmos at large.
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Lighting studies of the Spaceship of the Imagination.
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Another holdover from the 1980 *Cosmos* is the Cosmic Calendar, which represents the scale of time from the beginning of the known universe to the present day.
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One of the historical sites Tyson visits in the first episode of *Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey* is the Library of Alexandria, a locus of human knowledge and scholarship for nearly 3 centuries.
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Like *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage*, the new version looks back at the lives and discoveries of scientists past, but replaces its predecessor's sometimes-awkward live reenactments with much smoother animation, like this one of Giordano Bruno.
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The limited cosmology of Bruno's time postulated that the earth occupied the center of a cosmic sphere--Copernicus had published his heliocentric theory, but the church still mostly subscribed to a geocentric view--with the stars suspended at fixed distance within a celestial sphere.
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Concept art of the Hall of Extinction, which Tyson will visit next week in the second episode of *Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey*, "Some of the Things That Molecules Do."
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The Hall of Extinction is a monument to the broken branches of evolutionary trees.
