Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to bring lecture series to Columbia County

Tickets go on sale Friday to see celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson when he brings his lecture tour to Columbia County.

Tyson is scheduled to appear at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center in Evans on Feb. 28, 2024, the center announced Monday.

“Beginning with Mars, we review the ongoing effort to search for habitable planets, liquid water, and life in the cosmos, culminating in the search for intelligent life (and) whether it already exists on Earth,” the center said in a statement.

Now director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, Tyson rose to national prominence as a science communicator, simplifying complicated scientific and astronomic principles for audiences to foster public interest in the natural world and the universe.

Starting at 10 a.m. Sept. 15, tickets for Tyson’s local appearance can be acquired at www.ticketmaster.com or at the arts center’s Queensborough Box Office.

Tyson last visited the area in 2019, when the Georgia Cyber Center in downtown Augusta unveiled “Tatooine,” the Defense Digital Agency’s first office outside the Pentagon. The office is designed to help the DDS quickly solve technical issues that arise within U.S. military cyber systems.

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