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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.
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5 min
Here's the science of black holes, from supermassive monsters to ones the size of ping-pong balls.
4 min
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
5 min
Around Halloween in 2015, astronomers discovered 'The Goblin'. Now, it's leading us to what some call Planet X.
2 min
The thing that Carl Sagan did better than anybody else was connecting to the science through emotion and stories, says NASA's Michelle Thaller.
4 min
The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
6 min
We love citing the big names in science. Einstein. Curie. Sagan. Nye The Science Guy. But does that lower the bar for the rest of the workaday scientists out there?