Binge-Watch Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' on Twitch for Science Week

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By Hanneke Weitering
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Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" is making a comeback this week to kick off a five-day science marathon on Twitch.

The social video platform will start streaming all 13 episodes of "Cosmos" tomorrow (April 27) at 5 p.m. EDT, and you can binge-watch the series all night long — and well into Friday morning.

"Cosmos" originally aired in 1980 along with Sagan's book by the same name. In 2014, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson launched a reboot of the series called "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

Along with the marathon, Twitch will air a series of interviews with some science celebrities, including Ann Druyan. A live Q&A session with Druyan — Sagan's widow and co-writer of both the original series and the remake — will begin Friday (April 28) at 5 p.m. EDT.

For more information about guest speakers and Twitch's Science Week, check out Twitch's blog.

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Hanneke Weitering
Hanneke Weitering
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Hanneke Weitering is a multimedia journalist in the Pacific Northwest reporting on the future of aviation at FutureFlight.aero and Aviation International News and was previously the Editor for Spaceflight and Astronomy news here at Space.com. As an editor with over 10 years of experience in science journalism she has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her hometown of Knoxville, she earned her graduate degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke joined the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff writer and producer, covering topics including spaceflight and astronomy. She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos.