We Are Dead Stars

My friend Michelle Thaller is an amazing person. I met her when she was doing public outreach for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission many years ago, and she has since risen in the ranks at NASA to become the deputy director of science communication there. She has a wide and deep understanding of astronomy, so much so that I asked her to be my science/astronomy adviser on Crash Course Astronomy. But there's more to it than that. She has more than knowledge; she has a profound appreciation for...