Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Pizza.

We're going for pizza ovens here.

Yeah.

Okay.

If you open the oven and you just stick your hand in, your hand is not actually feeling like it's 500 degrees all of a sudden.

If you were to touch like a metal part of the oven, if you were to touch the rack, then you'd burn your hand.

Because, I mean, all of a sudden now you have a denser object.

You've got the metal.

A little bit of a thing about the Parker Solar Probe.

It's another incredible person, Eugene Parker.

And he was the person that discovered this wind of high-energy particles from the sun, the solar wind.

Yeah, a fabulous launch.

I'm glad somebody told me that a Delta Heavy looks like it explodes on the pad before the rocket comes up.

I was at that launch.

It was amazing.

The whole idea...

The surface of the sun is only about roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but as soon as you get off the surface, the gas becomes millions of degrees hot.

This was a big mystery.

How does the sun do that?

Normally, if you've got a hot campfire, the farther away you walk, the cooler it seems.

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