Michelle Thaller
speaker
1,835 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
Michelle Thaller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It goes by.
It blocks a little bit of the starlight.
And we find them that way.
We find the stars twinkling as little planets go around them again and again.
They have to come back three times for us to say it's a planet.
Otherwise, it could be a spot on the star or something else.
And...
The amazing thing is that the starlight will shine through the atmosphere of that planet, and we can actually probe the chemistry of the atmosphere.
So we find planets that have the size of the Earth, about the temperature of the Earth.
They have evidence of water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxygen.
And then last year, there was this fantastic controversial discovery.
I mean, it's very real.
We need to follow it up.
We think we're starting to see the evidence of organic molecules.
It's not a very strong signal yet.
And this was a press release from the James Webb Space Telescope.
And there were some scientists that wondered if these could be organic molecules that might someday be traceable even to the presence of life.
They resembled something that plankton might give off on an ocean world.
And then, of course, the rest of the scientists said, the data is not good enough yet.
We need much better observations before you can say that.
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