While Carl Sagan is no longer alive, his famous expression of 'billions and billions of stars, planets, and galaxies' is oft quoted, and his legacy lives on in many areas. Wednesday, September 3, NASA will hold a news conference on at 10:30 a.m. EDT, at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, Cullman Hall of the Universe, American Museum of Natural History in New York, to announce its new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration. The fellowships, named after the legendary astrophysicist, are designed to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.

Briefing participants: Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Ann Druyan, widow and collaborator of the late Carl Sagan, Ithaca, New York; Charles Beichman, executive director, NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute, Pasadena, California; Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York.

Another favorite quote of ours that typifies Carl: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.