“I’m not sure if I should admit this or not, but I have in fact danced in many observatories across the world.”
Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who loves the universe because it’s full of drama.
Michelle is a Renaissance dancer, which also has a kind of drama.
Michelle Thaller is an astronomer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She loves to study binary stars and the life cycles of the stars. In her off-hours, Michelle often puts on about 30 lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances.
Original funding for "The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers" was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.