Pale Blue Dot (book)

Pale Blue Dot
Cover of the first edition
AuthorCarl Sagan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAstronomy
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages429
ISBN0-679-43841-6
OCLC30736355
919.9/04 20
LC ClassQB500.262 .S24 1994
Preceded byShadows of Forgotten Ancestors 
Followed byThe Demon-Haunted World 

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space is a 1994 book by the astronomer Carl Sagan. It is the sequel to Sagan's 1980 book Cosmos and was inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph, for which Sagan provides a poignant description. In the book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of the current knowledge about the Solar System. He also details a human vision for the future.[1]

In 2023, the audiobook of Pale Blue Dot, read by Sagan, was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[2][3]