1. “The universe is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine” says Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson. “We’ve got black holes  filleting stars…life on Earth could have been seeded by Mars.”

    Sit back and enjoy Andy Greenhaw’s funky remix of Dr. Tyson’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

    Happy Friday!

  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s map of New York City, from Becky Cooper’s Mapping Manhattan (via Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in Subjective Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings)

    Neil deGrasse Tyson’s map of New York City, from Becky Cooper’s Mapping Manhattan

    (via Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in Subjective Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings)

  3. Update: Watch the full Asimov Debate video here. Have plans tonight? We’re live streaming the 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing, hosted by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson.  Tune in at amnh.org/live. The fun begins at 7:30 pm EST. Image (c) AMNH/R. Mickens

    Update: Watch the full Asimov Debate video here.

    Have plans tonight? We’re live streaming the 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing, hosted by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson. 

    Tune in at amnh.org/live. The fun begins at 7:30 pm EST.

    Image (c) AMNH/R. Mickens

  4. A million Twitter followers and counting…congratulations to Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson! Follow @neiltyson for “mostly random, occasionally coherent, cosmic brain droppings.” Photo: David Gamble

    A million Twitter followers and counting…congratulations to Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson!

    Follow @neiltyson for “mostly random, occasionally coherent, cosmic brain droppings.”

    Photo: David Gamble

  5. Four nights a year, the streets of Manhattan’s grid become the site for a spectacular sunset phenomenon known as “Manhattanhenge.” As Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, who discovered the phenomenon and coined the term “Manhattanhenge,” explains in his Hayden Planetarium blog, Manhattanhenge takes place “when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight.”  View Manhattanhenge tonight at 8:17 pm and tomorrow at 8:16 pm. Tweet your photos of the phenomenon @AMNH with the hashtag #Manhattanhenge or email them to comments@amnh.org for a chance to win two tickets to our Manhattanhenge program on July 11.  Photo courtesy of Katie Killary

    Four nights a year, the streets of Manhattan’s grid become the site for a spectacular sunset phenomenon known as “Manhattanhenge.” As Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, who discovered the phenomenon and coined the term “Manhattanhenge,” explains in his Hayden Planetarium blog, Manhattanhenge takes place “when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight.” 

    View Manhattanhenge tonight at 8:17 pm and tomorrow at 8:16 pm. Tweet your photos of the phenomenon @AMNH with the hashtag #Manhattanhenge or email them to comments@amnh.org for a chance to win two tickets to our Manhattanhenge program on July 11. 

    Photo courtesy of Katie Killary