Twenty of at least 51 confirmed deaths were children. The Oklahoma medical examiners office has been told to expect at least 40 more bodies.
Deborah Byrd
Deborah Byrd is Founder and President of EarthSky, which she created in 1991. EarthSky is a digital publisher that brings science and nature to millions of people around the world. Byrd has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. Besides blogging, Byrd is Editor-in-Chief of all EarthSky websites and social media outlets, and she oversees EarthSky’s science podcast series in English and Spanish. A science communicator and educator for 35 years, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and as a vital tool for the 21st century. Astrophysics, the night sky and imagining space travel remain among her most enduring lifelong passions.
Posts by Deborah Byrd
FAQs | May 20, 2013
The 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, is the only storm to make the list within the past 60 years
Blogs | May 20, 2013
Between now and the end of May, watch for Venus, Jupiter and Mercury gathered in the bright twilight. They’ll soon form a bright triangle.
Tonight | May 20, 2013
Once you’ve used the Big Dipper to find the orange star Arcturus, you can continue on to find the star Spica – and the planet Saturn.
Tonight | May 19, 2013
Now is the perfect time to look outside in the evening and learn a phrase useful to sky watchers: Follow the arc to Arcturus.
Blogs | May 19, 2013
The bright red waterfall – dubbed Blood Falls by geologists who discovered it in 1911 – is the work of microbes trapped beneath ice for nearly 2 million years.
Tonight | May 18, 2013
The star Deneb, in the Summer Triangle, is 1,500 light-years away – or more.
Today's Image | May 17, 2013
This meadow in Northumberland, overlooking the North Sea, typifies a landscape that many of us outside the UK imagine, when we think of England.
Tonight | May 17, 2013
We passed between the sun and Saturn on April 28. May 2013 is a good time to see Saturn. Tips and charts that’ll let you locate the ringed planet.
Blogs | May 16, 2013
Researchers don’t know yet whether anything has been living in the water, which has been out of contact with Earth’s atmosphere for over a billion years.
