Hurry). С 1996 года занимает пост директора Хейденского планетария (Нью-Йорк) при Американском музее естественной истории. Является одним из основателей и ведущим популярного подкаста StarTalk (номинирован на «Грэмми») и его ответвления StarTalk Sports Edition, где удачно сочетаются наука, юмор и массовая культура. Лауреат 21 почетной докторской степени. Награжден медалью Национальной академии наук «За весомый вклад в общественное благосостояние» и медалью НАСА «За выдающуюся государственную службу». В его честь названы астероид № 13123 (Тайсон) и лягушка Indirana tysoni. Живет в Нью-Йорке.

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Сирил Д. Тайсон умер в возрасте 89 лет. Joseph P. Fried, «Cyril D. Tyson Dies at 89: Fought Poverty in a Turbulent Era», New York Times, December 30, 2016, accessed January 19, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/nyregion/cyril-degrasse-tyson – dead.html.

2

Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain (New York: Times Books, 2011).

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4

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John Keats, «Ode on a Grecian Urn», accessed March 1, 2022, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn.

6

Пер. с англ. В. А. Комаровского.

7

Евангелие от Иоанна 14:6.

8

Даты и время вычислены автором по фазам Луны, ее ориентации и восхождению на небосклоне по отношению к Венере.

9

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12

Или на седьмом небе. – Прим. перев.

13

В области астрофизики существует великое множество каталогов всевозможных вещей. Здесь мы ссылаемся на: PSR: Pulsating Source of Radio (pulsars); NGC: New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; IC: Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars – an extension of the NGC.

14

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16

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17

Это не ошибка. Мало кому известно, что шаровая молния в момент разряда направлена от земли к тучам, а не наоборот.

18

Joyce Kilmer, «Trees», Oatridge, accessed November 2, 2021, https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/j/joyce-kilmer-trees.php.

19

Simon Mundy, «India Critics Push Back Against Modi’s Space Programme Plans», Financial Times, August 27, 2018, accessed July 11, 2021, https://www.ft.com/content/edeb1846-a691–11e8–8ecf-a7ae1beff35b.

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«Poverty in India: Facts and Figures on the Daily Struggle for Survival», SOS Children’s Villages, accessed July 11, 2021, https://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/news/poverty-in-india-602.

21

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22

Пер. с англ. Д. Сильвестрова.

23

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24

Neil deGrasse Tyson, «Paths to Discovery», in The Columbia History of the 20th Century, edited by Richard Bulliet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 461.

25

Daniele Fanelli and Vincent Larivière, «Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century», PLOS ONE 11, no. 3 (March 9, 2016), accessed July 10, 2021, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149504.

26

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27

Оригинал письма из библиотеки автора.

28

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29

NeelBurton, «WhenHomo- sexuality Stopped Being a Mental Disorder», Psychology Today, September 18, 2015, accessed September 8, 2021, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201509/when-homosexuality-stopped-being-mental-disorder.

30

Основано на опыте личного присутствия на торжествах по случаю 20-летнего юбилея Планетарного общества, Лос-Анджелес, 2005 г.

31

Экклезиаст 1:9.

32

Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016).

33

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34

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35

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36

Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hens- ley, «The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy»,