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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.

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Director

Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Is Earth Unique?
2010
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
The Theory of Everything
2011
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Faster Than the Speed of Light
2012
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
The Existence of Nothing
2013
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Water, Water
2015
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Is the Universe a Simulation
2016
Episode Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Artificial Intelligence
2018

Writer

Episode MinutePhysics
Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
2012

Showrunner

Episode Cosmos (2014)
Ladder to the Stars
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
Lost City of Life
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
Vavilov
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
The Cosmic Connectome
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
The Man of a Trillion Worlds
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
The Sacrifice of Cassini
2020
Episode Cosmos (2014)
Magic Without Lies
2020

Guest Star

Episode Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2018
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Seth MacFarlane, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
2015
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
July 25, 2014
2014
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jon Batiste
2021
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Andy Samberg, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Globe of Steel, Mike Yung
2016
Episode MinutePhysics
Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
2012
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 132
2018
Episode PBS Space Time
Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?
2017
Episode Conversa com Bial
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
2020
Episode The Daily Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2012
Episode The Wendy Williams Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2019
Episode The Big Bang Theory
The Conjugal Configuration
2018
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Chris Pratt, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ryan Adams
2017
Episode CinemaSins
Everything Wrong With Gravity
2014
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
Overtime - June 3, 2016
2016
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
February 04, 2011
2011
Episode Hot Ones
Neil deGrasse Tyson Drops Knowledge | Hot Ones Extras
2017
Episode Conan (2010)
Jack McBrayer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Joe List
2016
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Mike Myers, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Damon Albarn
2014
Episode NOVA
The Pluto Files
2010
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
November 1, 2013
2013
Episode Gravity Falls
Little Gift Shop of Horrors
2014
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Uzo Aduba, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Adia Victoria
2016
Episode Rachael Ray
Neil deGrasse Tyson On If There's Really Life On Mars + Rach's 3-Ingredient Toasted Cacio e Pepe
2018
Episode The Daily Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2007
Episode The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Episode 18
2015
Episode AI IRL
Neil deGrasse Tyson on AI and Astrophysics
2023
Episode The Universe
Secrets of the Sun
2007
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
#1159 – Neil deGrasse Tyson
2018
Episode The Big Bang Theory
The Apology Insufficiency
2010
Episode The Anthony Cumia Show
Episode 313 - with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Esther Ku
2016
Episode Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Swedes
2015
Episode The Colbert Report
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
2005
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Miles Teller, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
2016
Episode The Sky At Night
Guide to the Galaxy
2017
Episode The Colbert Report
Richard Thompson Ford
2008
Episode Late Night with Seth Meyers
Elizabeth Banks, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brendan Hunt
2020
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Aaron Paul, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brittany Howard
2019
Episode NOVA
Origins (1): Earth is Born
2004
Episode 20/20
Last Days On Earth
2006
Episode Stargate Atlantis
Brain Storm
2008
Episode The Anthony Cumia Show
Episode 373
2016
Episode NOVA
Origins (2): How Life Began
2004
Episode Conan (2010)
Rashida Jones, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Danger Mouse, Sam Cohen
2017
Episode Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2012
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
Overtime - October 2, 2015
2015
Episode Retro Tech
Teleportation
2021
Episode Charlie Rose
An Hour of Science
2015
Episode The Colbert Report
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2014
Episode NOVA
Origins (3): Where Are The Aliens?
2004
Episode FORA.tv
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Pluto Files
2009
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Emmy Blotnick
2022
Episode NOVA
Origins (4): Back To The Beginning
2004
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
#1347 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2019
Episode The Daily Show
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
2013
Episode The Daily Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015
Episode Celebrity Family Feud
Neil deGrasse Tyson vs Rick Fox and Boy Band vs Girl Group
2017
Episode Salvation
Pilot
2017
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
#310 - Neil Degrasse Tyson, Brian Redban
2013
Episode The Daily Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2017
Episode On The Verge (2011)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2012
Episode Altered Carbon
The History of Immortality
1970
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
Episode 390
2016
Episode The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan Experience #919 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2017
Episode The Daily Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2011
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
Episode 366
2015
Episode Hot Ones
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Universe While Eating Spicy Wings
2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Saoirse Ronan, Billy Corgan
2017
Episode The Simpsons
Caper Chase
2017
Episode Super Science Friends
Nobel of the Ball
2017
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Phil Rosenthal
2022
Episode The Colbert Report
Neil Young
2006
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
9th Rock from the Sun
2015
Episode NOVA
Space Shuttle Disaster
2008
Episode Last Call with Carson Daly
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Against Me!, Stephanie Beatriz
2017
Episode Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Space Station Scooby
2020
Episode Desus & Mero
Monday, May 1, 2017
2017
Episode Moyers & Company
Part One: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos
2014
Episode Moyers & Company
Part Two: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe
2014
Episode Moyers & Company
Part Three: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy
2014