Michelle Thaller

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2506 - Michelle Thaller · 28 May 2026 podcast

You can tell exactly what atoms and molecules are in that object.

Here we go.

Look at that.

So what your amazing person, by the way, that's incredible.

Thank you so much.

Every element, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, has a fingerprint in the rainbow.

And it's like you know it's that.

There's nothing else like it.

You know that you see carbon and nitrogen if you see these colors of the rainbow shining at that particular light.

And it's not just simple things like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, but it's water vapor, carbon dioxide, organic molecules.

Everybody has their fingerprint in the rainbow.

And so when the starlight shines through the atmosphere, there you go.

That's how we tell what these things are made of.

You know, this is a dying star.

This is actually in the Carina Nebula.

and one of the most luminous stars there is.

And we pass the light through a rainbow, and then looking really, really carefully at how much light comes at every color, you can pick apart exactly what it's made of.

Wow.

Yeah.

Did you know that helium, you know the element helium, right?

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