**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 of ...

**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 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on FOX--an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series--he 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!He is the author of Death by Black Hole and Space Chronicles *, among other works.