Last December, when astrophysicist Michelle Thaller took to the stage at the Smithsonian’s “Long Conversation,” an event that brought together 25 thinkers for an eight-hour relay of two-person ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, star matter, measuring the distance of space — and nearly all of the accomplishments we’ve worked toward in astronomy and astrophysics would not be possible without the ...

Terry Edward (Gordon) Thaller, 63, of Shepherd, lost his long and courageous battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma on Monday, January 10, 2011 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Funeral services ...

Jane (Beauvais) Thaller, 88, wife of the late Frank Thaller, of Bloomfield, passed away June 11, 2025 in UConn John Dempsey Hospital with her family by her side. She was born in Ira, Michigan, ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer at NASA’s Goddard Space ...

Michelle Thaller finds dance partners across time and space. 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.