National Geographic 2000/2023
TOP documentary
National Geographic 2000/2023
TOP documentary
The Universe:(episode 1) A Journey in Time and Space: The world becomes free
Our journey begins by heading to another world in another time. It's a beautiful beach on the last day of perfect weather on Venus.
The Universe:(episode 2) A Journey in Time and Space: A sky inhabited by ghosts
An exploration of how light, time and gravity combine to distort our perceptions of the universe. We eavesdrop on a series of walks along the beach on summer nights in 1809.
The Universe:(episode 3) The Universe: A Journey in Time and Space: Hiding in the Light
Neil deGrasse Tyson explores light and enlightenment, from William Herschel's accidental discovery of infrared light to the beginning of astrophysics.
The Universe:(episode 4) Cosmos: A Journey in Time and Space: Not Afraid of the Dark .
We know less about the universe now than enlightened Europeans knew before the discovery of the Americas. All those billions of galaxies, all those stars, planets and moons, represent only a small percentage of 4% of what is out there waiting to be discovered. Acknowledging this is the humility that distinguishes science from other human activities, and it underscores the fact that larger and more complex mysteries, such as dark energy, still lie ahead.
The Universe:(episode 5) A Journey in Time and Space: The Clean Room
The era of the Earth's youth, full of momentous events and changes, has already erased all traces of its early beginnings. How do we know the true age of the Earth?
The Universe:(episode 6) A Journey in Time and Space: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
As the ship of imagination sails into the midst of history, we will know how the history of the Earth was written on every atom in it, in every wave in its oceans, and in every living creature on its surface.
Documentary (cosmos)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Born
October 5, 1958 ยท New York City, New York, USA
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics at Columbia University. For the next three years, 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.
From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for Natural History magazine, some of which were published in his book Death by Black Hole (2007). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in Star Date magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name "Merlin". Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin's Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry, and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year.
In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
As a science communicator, Tyson regularly appears on television, radio, and various other media outlets.
