How Humans Realized Earth Life Wasn’t the Center of the Universe | Astrobiology Series: Part II

This is Part 2 of the Dr. StarKid astrobiology series. Before we can talk seriously about life beyond Earth, we have to understand how humans figured out Earth was not the center of everything. This episode walks through the ideas, assumptions, observations, and arguments that moved us from ancient skywatching to modern astrophysics. Expect to learn about ancient debates over infinite worlds, human pattern recognition, the night sky as an early scientific tool, planets as “wanderers,” retrogr...