Families around America gathered around their television’s this past Sunday and last weekend to watch the next two episodes of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, the hit show which aired on Fox and The National Geographic channel almost a month ago.

  The show follows Neil Degrasse Tyson as he explores, discovers, and explains the mysteries that surround our universe and the world in which we live in. He simplifies the scientific world or physics, chemistry, and biology into a more simple, easier to understand model for the average, non-physicists persons within the world.

  The first two episodes of the show covered a wide range of topics. This past two weeks, the Cosmos team decided to focus in on more specific subjects. Episode three of the hit T.V. series explained to viewers how comets work and what they have meant to civilizations throughout man’s history.

  Tyson explained the lives of several brilliant scientists such as the works of Isaac Newton and how their work has affected our modern world today. This is all done in an extremely artistic form of animation and brilliantly expresses the point that the show is attempting to get across.

  Throughout the rest of the episode, Mr. Tyson also explained how a comet is affected by gravity and followed one as it journeyed across our Solar System. This was a very interesting spectacle thing to view and to visualize.

  The fourth episode of Cosmos actually went in the complete opposite direction of third. Rather than focusing on scientists here on Earth, Cosmos went out into the Universe and explored how light was made, how fast it traveled, and the mystery of the black hole.

  Cosmos airs every Sunday night on Channel 5 (Fox) and every Monday on the National Geographic Channel at 9 P.M.