SAN ANTONIO — The world’s leading authority on the heavens is bringing his otherworldly smarts down to San Antonio.

Noted astrophysicist and “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” host Neil deGrasse Tyson will grace the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on June 16, 2015, for “An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson.” Tickets officially go on sale Friday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m.

But the Tobin Center is offering a special “presale opportunity” now for the Tyson event. Click here and use the promo code COSMOS, which is valid for purchasing tickets online, in person or by phone at 210-223-8624. Tickets look to start at $47.50, with meet and greet tickets at $165.

The director of the Hayden Planetarium is famous for making scientific topics both enlightening and entertaining, be it breaking down exploding stars and the many wonders of the Milky Way or just breaking apart the science sins of “Gravity” and cracking us up with his beloved Internet meme. Like Bill Nye the Science Guy without the bow ties, Tyson popularizes science for the masses on various popular media platforms, including “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” He once even appeared as himself in the comics to tell Superman what star Krypton once orbited, while in the real world helped pick a real star to approximate it.