Michelle Thaller

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"Using incredible accelerating magnets, they whip single protons up to very very high temperatures."

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"This experiment was an inexpensive small observatory that's up on the International Space Station."

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"I've had the wonderful chance to go to CERN a couple of times and go to the Large Hadron Collider."

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"Whether it's a huge project like the Event Horizon Telescope where I would have bet that they would not have been able to make that measurement and they did."

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"Going all the way back to the mid 90s I was a postdoc at Caltech."

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"There's a great book called The First Three Minutes which has been around since probably the 1970s and it outlines how we think the universe in the first three minutes went from the big bang to just the hydrogen and helium that we have."

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"The first NASA satellite that observed it was called COBE, the cosmic microwave explorer."

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"There was a new one in the 1990s called WMAP, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. They measured this down to hundreds of thousands of a degree."

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"Off to the side there, they're currently building the ELT, which is the Extremely Large Telescope."

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"There was a mission called Osiris Rex - origin spectral interpretation resource identification security regolith explorer. It brought back a sample of an asteroid."