Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Director of the Hayden Planetarium and the most widely heard public voice in American astronomy. Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the 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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Born
1958-10-05, New York, New York, USAA Sunday
At birth
Sun in Libra, Moon in Cancer
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1958-10-05, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunLibra11°54′Direct
MoonCancer7°19′Direct
MercuryLibra12°00′Direct
VenusLibra2°27′Direct
MarsGemini2°22′Direct
JupiterScorpio5°33′Direct
SaturnSagittarius20°31′Direct
UranusLeo15°21′Direct
NeptuneScorpio3°40′Direct
PlutoVirgo3°18′Direct

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