Neil de Grasse Tyson grew up in New York City, studied physics at Harvard University, and gained his doctorate at Columbia. He researches star formation and the structure of the Milky Way. He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium on Central Park West in New York City, and a member of the President’s Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, which will report in June on US plans for exploring space. His book The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an urban astrophysicist will be published in May by Prometheus.
What’s your favourite planet?
Saturn. My favourite star would…
