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Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 7:30 PM Des Moines Civic Center

Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 7:30 PM Des Moines Civic Center

Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

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  • Please note only children age 5 and over with tickets will be allowed into the theater for this production.

About The Show

Derived from an entirely different set of films, from the “Wizard of Oz” to “Mary Poppins” to “2001: A Space Odyssey” to Harry Potter. An entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right. Incorporating 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.