Tyson's professional research interests are varied, but they primarily address problems related to star formation models of dwarf galaxies, exploding stars, and the chemical evolution history of the Milky Way's galactic bulge. Tyson obtains his data from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile.

Tyson is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and he is a Visiting Research Scientist in astrophysics at Princeton University, where he also teaches.

In addition to dozens of professional publications, Dr. Tyson has written, and continues to write for the public. Tyson's recent books include a memoir, The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, the companion book to the opening of the new Rose Center for Earth and Space; One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos (coauthored with Charles Liu and Robert Irion); and a Q&A book on the universe for all ages titled Just Visiting This Planet. He is also a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title "Universe."

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