Neil deGrasse Tyson

Person · 7 cases · 2014–2022 · American astrophysicist and science communicator

How Neil deGrasse Tyson spread

Tyson reached wider audiences through astronomy columns, the Pluto controversy, public television, radio, and Cosmos.

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2023202420252026199520002006200920148 yrsDART’s asteroid impact · Carried it · Oct 16, 2022Webb’s first images · Carried it · Jul 11, 2022First black-hole image · Carried it · Apr 10, 20192017 Great American Eclipse · Carried it · Aug 21, 2017New Horizons’ Pluto heart · Carried it · Jul 15, 2015The Dress · Carried it · Feb 28, 2015Philae’s comet landing · Carried it · Nov 12, 2014Start1995Breakout2000New audience2006New audience2009First big push2014PressTVAudioXInstagram

  1. 1995

    StartPress

    Tyson began writing the monthly Universe column for Natural History magazine. en.wikipedia.org

  2. 2000

    BreakoutPress

    The Hayden Planetarium grouped Pluto with icy objects, a decision that later drew controversy around Tyson. pbs.org

  3. 2006

    New audienceTV

    Tyson became host of PBS's NOVA scienceNOW, bringing science stories to television audiences. pbs.org

  4. 2009

    New audienceAudio

    Tyson began hosting StarTalk, bringing science to listeners through a weekly podcast. en.wikipedia.org

  5. 2014

    First big pushTV

    Tyson hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan's television series. web.archive.org

2017 Great American Eclipse

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Total solar eclipse image taken through Takahashi FS152 with a f6 focal reducer and a Canon 5D MarkIV, exposure bracketing was used in seven steps from 1/2 sec to 1/8000 sec. Image was processed in…

$63.5M revenue

Webb’s first images

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NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

200B impressions

New Horizons’ Pluto heart

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Pluto

300K new Instagram followers

The Dress

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The Dress

3K sold

Philae’s comet landing

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Philae (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

287K new Philae followers

DART’s asteroid impact

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Asteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft.

9.2M views

First black-hole image

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First Image of a Black Hole

10.8M impressions

Picture: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped