Neil Degrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. The host ofCosmos: A Spacetime Odysseyon FOXan update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television serieshe previously hosted NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy! Heis the author of Death by Black HoleandSpace Chronicles, among other works.