VIDEO: Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks New Season Of ‘StarTalk’ on TODAY

Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson is host of “StarTalk,” an Emmy-nominated National Geographic series on which he explores science in an entertaining way – as he demonstrated on this morning's TODAY with a hilarious clip featuring Whoopi Goldberg.

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