Neil deGrasse Tyson is *so* excited about the universe it's impossible not to be excited with him. He absolutely makes this audiobook, which would have been interesting to begin with, an amazing experience.

A few of my favorite quotes:

Kids love black holes like they love the t-rex, and I think it's because each of these things can eat you, and anything that can eat you you give the highest respect.

Dark matter's just a placeholder name. We could easily have just called it Fred…Dark matter I'll call Fred and dark energy I'll call Barney

This was interesting and full of some fascinating unsolved mysteries, and it made me want to dive a bit deeper. I haven't done a ton of study of the universe since school, and given that Pluto lost and regained its planetary status since then, there's probably a lot of other stuff that has changed as well. This has pointed me to a few things I'm interested in studying.