cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson

As a science communicator, Tyson regularly appears on television, radio and various other media outlets. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan’s 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the US aerospace industry, and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin’s Tour of the Universe and Just Visiting This Planet. During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in Star Date magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name, Merlin. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debuted Sunday on Fox, and with its riveting visuals and compelling narrative, it was everything fans of the original series. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the “Universe” column for Natural History magazine, some of which were published in his book Death by Black Hole. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. An evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson will be at the State Theatre in Minneapolis on Apat 8 p.m.

Cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson