The Spaceship of the Imagination, which Neil deGrasse Tyson pilots in Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. The ship was redesigned from Sagan's original in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)

The Spaceship of the Imagination travels through space and time, allowing Tyson to bring viewers to distant galaxies--and far into the history and future of our own planet and the cosmos at large.

Lighting studies of the Spaceship of the Imagination.

Another holdover from the 1980 Cosmos is the Cosmic Calendar, which represents the scale of time from the beginning of the known universe to the present day.

One of the historical sites Tyson visits in the first episode of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey is the Library of Alexandria, a locus of human knowledge and scholarship for nearly 3 centuries.

Like Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the new version looks back at the lives and discoveries of scientists past, but replaces its predecessor's sometimes-awkward live reenactments with much smoother animation, like this one of Giordano Bruno.

The limited cosmology of Bruno's time postulated that the earth occupied the center of a cosmic sphere--Copernicus had published his heliocentric theory, but the church still mostly subscribed to a geocentric view--with the stars suspended at fixed distance within a celestial sphere.

Concept art of the Hall of Extinction, which Tyson will visit next week in the second episode of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, "Some of the Things That Molecules Do."

The Hall of Extinction is a monument to the broken branches of evolutionary trees.