Michelle Thaller
Assistant Director for Science Communication, NASA
Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. For more information, visit NASA.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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Astronomer Michelle Thaller explains the healing power of physics after losing her husband.
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Thanks to time-traveling telescopes, we can see more about the Big Bang.
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Thanks to time-traveling telescopes, we can see more about the Big Bang
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Astrophysicist Michelle Thaller explains how a solar storm could wipe out civilization… and what we can do to prevent catastrophe.
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Astronomer Michelle Thaller schools us on what atoms really look, the Big Bang theory, and the speed of light.
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Astrophysicist Michelle Thaller talks ISS and why NICER is so important.
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Do space and time really exist? NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller looks at the implications of Einstein's famous equation E=mc2.
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Being stuck at home is not as intense as being away from Earth, but there are ways to cope in either scenario.
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We have arrived: Big Think's most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.
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NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explains what astronomers actually do, and how can you become one.
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We still don't have proof of intelligent life beyond that on Earth.
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Stargazing is a form of time travel.
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Stargazing is a form of time travel.
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Going back to the moon will give us fresh insights about the creation of our solar system.
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The recent photo of a black hole is something extraordinary. Here's why.
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Gigantic explosions of light are reverberating across the universe.
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We are hurtling through space. But where are we going?
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Black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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Light exists outside of time.
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There are places in our solar system where you can fly.
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Artistic depictions of the atom have deceived us all.
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It's one of the most consistent patterns in the unviverse. What causes it?
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A lot goes into being weightless.
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