That's right folks you read that right. I for one am a huge fan of Dr. Tyson's, and a pretty big Superman fan as well. So when I learned about this cameo in Action Comics Superman #14 I had to say something about it. Dr. Tyson has found Krypton for Superman, literally. Well not really, but DC did approach him to find a red star that could be the sun of Kal El's birthplace. And of course he delivered the goods.
Krypton is found 27.1 light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Corvus (The Crow), says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium in New York City. The planet orbits the red dwarf star LHS 2520, which is cooler and smaller than our sun.
Tyson performed the celestial sleuthing at the request of DC Comics, which wanted to run a story about Superman's search for his home planet.
"As a native of Metropolis, I was delighted to help Superman, who has done so much for my city over all these years," Tyson said in a statement. "And it's clear that if he weren't a superhero he would have made quite an astrophysicist."
So there you have it folks, we now know where Krypton is, or was. Yay science.
Source via Geekologie
