2012 Comic Book News Archives

November 5, 2012: Astrophysicist Locates the Planet Krypton

Action Comics #14 Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has found the exact location where the planet Krypton would have existed in our universe.

    The "real" Krypton is in the Corvus constellation, about 27.1 light years from Earth, orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 2520, Tyson determined.

    The star, which is smaller and cooler than our sun, can be seen at right ascension 12 hours, 10 minutes, 05.60 seconds, and declination 15 degrees, 04' 15.66.

    The Hayden Planetarium director tracked down the locale based on information provided to him by DC Comics, which was doing a story on Superman's search for his home planet in the pages of "Action Comics."

    "One of our staffers reached out to him to see if he'd assist for a story we were doing, and he actually came up with a location," said DC co-publisher Dan DiDio.

This was all for issue #14 of "Action Comics" (on sale Wednesday, November 7), in which Tyson himself makes an appearance, helping Superman to pinpoint the exact location of his home planet.

Read the full article at the NY Post website.

You might also like to read the Discovery Magazine article on this story.



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