Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

Fri Feb 28 2025 at 08:30 pm UTC-04:00

900 Broadway, Columbus, GA, United States, Georgia 31901 | Columbus

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies
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RiverCenter presents Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies on February 28 at 7:30 PM! Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, May 17 at 10:00 AM ET through the RiverCenter Box Office and online at rivercenter.org.
This content is timeless for any city that has not yet seen this talk. From Star Wars to Frozen to Armageddon, to The Titanic to The Martian. An entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right. Incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. 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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