Before he was unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos on television, Neil deGrasse Tyson was a curious 9-year-old kid in the Bronx who fell in love with the stars the moment he looked through a telescope at the Hayden Planetarium. One lesser-known, heartfelt chapter of his story begins shortly after that moment—when young Neil, obsessed with the night sky, begged his parents for a telescope of his own. Money was tight, but his mother, a gerontologist, and his father, a sociologist working for cit