Neil deGrasse Tyson Welcomes You to This Universe

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 13, 2016

Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, host of NatGeo Channel's StarTalk and editor of StarTalk: Everything you need to know about space travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond (National Geographic, 2016), and co-author of Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour  (Princeton University Press, 2016), talks about the new season of StarTalk and breaks down the latest science news.

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