Michelle Thaller
Assistant Director for Science Communication, NASA
Michelle Thaller is an astronomer and Assistant Director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ever wanted to ask a NASA astronomer a question? Michelle Thaller is Big Think’s resident space pro, and she is taking questions right now!
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NASA’s director of science communication explains why success and failure are vague, impractical metrics to give young people.
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Pop quiz! Which NASA mission has been most critical to humanity? (Hint: it’s not the Moon landing.)
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What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser.
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Love being an intelligent, mobile, conscious being? Thank colliding neutron stars. They created all the gold in the universe, including the gold atoms that your brain can’t function without.
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If there’s other intelligent life in the universe, is it very different from us, or is it very similar? First we have to know where our species is headed, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.
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