He conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence and helped construct the Voyager interstellar record, which carried pictures and music from Earth out into the cosmos.
The images from the Hubble, which has a clear view of the cosmos from its orbit above the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, will enable astronomers to gain a better understanding of black holes and the effect they have on material captured in their gravitational trap.
In Galactica, there were the 12 colonies of Kobolin that quase-biblical space epic that ultimately asked whether Earth had close relatives elsewhere in the cosmos.