Michelle Thaller
speaker
577 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Michelle Thaller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026
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Why does the temperature go up?
The Parker Solar Probe has really helped answer that.
There's all of these complicated accelerations due to magnetic fields around the sun.
The particles pick up speed.
There are shocks in there.
So, I mean, we're figuring out how the sun works.
It's not something we know until we go there near the sun, fly around in this corona, and see what's going on.
And look at that.
You're getting all of that for a lousy $6 billion.
Oh, yeah.
It goes over 400,000 miles an hour.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I keep having to look that up because I don't believe it.
And then I look it up again.
I'm always up for questions.
Oh, I love gravitational waves.
Are you kidding?
I was a postdoc at Caltech.
I better love gravitational waves.
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