The rarest objects in the night sky are only visible in the world's most extreme places. Dr. Michelle Thaller introduces us to Dr. Anna Moore, a scientist who travels to Antarctica with instruments that read the thermal signals from the violent universe. From these "dynamic infrared" measurements, Moore's instruments see pulsating, exploding, and even colliding stars.


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Orbital Path is produced by PRX and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Don't miss PRX's other science podcasts: Transistor and Outside Magazine.

About Michelle Thaller

Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer and science communicator who works at NASA. In addition to hosting the "Orbital Path" podcast, Michelle appears regularly on Discovery Science Channel’s “How the Universe Works,” and “The Stripped Universe.”

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