Neil deGrasse Tyson

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is science fiction, not space opera. It presents a not-so-far-away future in which space travel, while possible, is dangerous and uncertain. Time dilation comes into effect in the presence of a black hole and there’s just enough quantum mechanics for physics geeks to consider the film’s space-travel scenario as halfway or hypothetically …

Noted film critic astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a long history of fact checking movies while still making the Internet love him. Back during the release of Titanic, Tyson noticed that the celestial pattern Jack and Rose see in the Atlantic Ocean sky didn’t match what they should’ve in that location and time of year, …