Michelle Thaller

They think this is the best thing in the world to do.

It is profound.

And to be that close, I mean, just looking up, you don't even need a telescope or a pair of binoculars.

The presence of something so much larger than you.

But I mean, if you've listened to some of my podcasts, I think you know that the big deal for me is that you are such a

part of this.

You are such an intimate, intrinsic part of this.

It's not we're separate from space.

We look up and there's something separate from us.

That's the story of us up there.

The only way the universe makes atoms, the only way that makes the chemicals all around us, the aluminum, the iron, the oxygen, the carbon, the phosphorus, everything that makes me up, the only thing in the universe that makes atoms is

is the interior of a star.

It's the only place where nuclear fusion puts atoms together.

So everything that you are, the story is up there.

And so you're not looking at something separate and distant.

Astrophysics is the story of the end of your nose, literally.

I mean, we are part of this beautiful, bigger thing.

Yeah, we are golden.

Got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Oh, yeah.