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Posts by
Deborah Byrd
After sunup, look for the daytime moon
In the days after every full moon, look in a blue sky after sunrise for a daytime moon.
June 30, 2017
Why do quasars twinkle?
Is it just a coincidence that some twinkling quasars are close on the sky's dome to hot, bright stars? New research suggests a connection and an explanation for a 30-year-old mystery.
June 29, 2017
Expect colorful clouds from rocket launch
NASA sounding rocket to form blue-green and red clouds in space Thursday morning. Launch window opens 4:25 a.m. EDT (8:25 UTC). Backup launch day is June 30.
June 27, 2017
Saturday night’s extremely young moon
Photo and animation of an extremely young moon - only 18 hours past the new phase - setting over a hill last night, as seen from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
June 25, 2017
Sunset
No matter where you are on Earth, your northernmost sunsets of the year are happening around now.
June 20, 2017
Elon Musk’s Mars manifesto
What if the cost of going to Mars as a colonist were less than US $200,000, or about the median cost of a house in the U.S.? Would you go? Elon Musk thinks many would.
June 18, 2017
A ribbon of ammonia in Orion
Radio telescopes have detected a 50-light-year filament of star-forming gas, zigzagging its way through the northern portion of the Orion Molecular Cloud.
June 18, 2017
Saturn over New York City
Think you can't see stars or planets from the city? Check out these 2 photos of Saturn over New York.
June 17, 2017
Did our sun have a twin?
A new analysis suggests the likely answer is yes — though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star.
June 14, 2017
Milky Way over the Everglades
Watch this video, showing Earth spinning under the sky of the southern Everglades in Florida.
June 14, 2017
