The breathtaking Passport to the Universe reveals the wonders of our universe in a way never before possible in a planet | dG1fSzZaa2hMUGhsNms
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00:00This is Tom Hanks.
00:05There comes a time in each of our lives when it first dawns on us that we are not the center
00:10of the universe, that we are part of something larger than ourselves.
00:15As it happens to each of us, so it is happening to our civilization right now.
00:21We are living in the golden age of astronomy.
00:26We are completing the spacecraft reconnaissance of our solar system.
00:29We are using other kinds of light to observe the life cycles of stars and galaxies, revealing
00:34wonders never before visible.
00:36We are mapping the grand structure of the universe, tracing its ancient past, finding
00:42our place in its great story.
00:45We are becoming citizens of the cosmos.
00:59NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology