Tyson was entering graduate school in astrophysics at the time and remembers watching Carl Sagan host the original Cosmos. It's an update of the influential 1980 PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Journey. This spring, Tyson hosts a new TV series called Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. He's hosted a four-part series on Nova and appeared everywhere from The Tonight Show to The Daily Show to Wait Wait. Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York, is a prolific writer and frequently cited authority on astronomy in the popular media. But if you ask Neil deGrasse Tyson how he became an astrophysicist he says: "I think the universe called me. When it comes to "callings" we usually think of people who feel drawn to religious career paths. It's an update of the influential 1980 PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Journey, hosted by Carl Sagan. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a new TV series called Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey.
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