Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, TV host and one of the current rockstars of the science world.

Like Carl Sagan, Tyson has the ability to communicate the wonders of science to a mainstream audience with charisma and a sense of humour. It’s fitting then that Tyson will be hosting the upcoming sequel to Sagan’s iconic series Cosmos.

The cartoon's passage comes from a Tyson interview with Time magazine: