Merlin's Tour of the Universe

‘Tyson has become the most influential science communicator in the country.’ - VOX‘Tyson has created a space-age Merlin. An astrophysicist and educator, Tyson weaves together imaginative with straightforward science.’ - USA Today ‘Tyson is a master of streamlining and simplification … taking mind-bogglingly complex ideas, stripping them down to their nuts and bolts, padding them with colorful allegories and dorky jokes, and making them accessible to the layperson.’ - Salon ‘We all have some questions we’d like to ask about astronomy. Well, here they are - and the answers too, short, straightforward, light-hearted, and correct.’ - Isaac Asimov, on the original publication of companion volume Merlin’s Tour of the Universe

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In 2017 he became the first American to win the prestigious Stephen Hawking Medal for science communication. He 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. From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS, and in March 2014 he became host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Tyson has written several New York Times bestselling nonfiction books.