The Voyager Golden Records carry human emotions into the Cosmos. The sounds and images encoded into the phonograph records (pictured) aboard NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft are designed to depict Earth, life, and humanity. Read our latest article about how the Voyagers also carry human emotion, especially love, out into the great beyond. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Social media can be a powerful tool for sharing space with the world. This week on Planetary Radio, Sarah Al-Ahmed chats with the YouTuber Astrokobi about how he went from stargazing in a rural Australian backyard to inspiring millions of people around the world to love space science.
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