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Deborah Byrd

See it! Wednesday’s penumbral lunar eclipse

Photos of March 23, 2016 penumbral eclipse of the moon. Moon never entered Earth's dark umbral shadow, but, if you look, you'll see a shading on one side of the moon.

Deborah Byrd

March 23, 2016

Lone galaxy in ‘wilds’ of Local Group

This galaxy is so small and secluded that it may never have interacted with any other Local Group galaxy — or perhaps any other galaxy in the universe.

Deborah Byrd

March 23, 2016

Kepler catches a supernova shockwave

The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft caught the earliest minutes of 2 exploding stars and, for the first time, the flash of supernova shockwave in visible light.

Deborah Byrd

March 23, 2016

See it! Monday night’s moon and Jupiter

EarthSky friends capture the night sky's 2 brightest objects, the moon and Jupiter, on Monday night, March 21.

Deborah Byrd

March 22, 2016

Holy halo

A lunar halo behind the statue of an angel in Frösön, Sweden.

Deborah Byrd

March 20, 2016

Star party in Nicaragua

Around the world, friends gather to watch the stars. Here's a quiet night next to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.

Deborah Byrd

March 19, 2016

Site of collision of 4 galaxy clusters

Here's galaxy cluster MACS J0717, the site of a collision between 4 galaxy clusters, located about 5.4 billion light years away from Earth.

Deborah Byrd

March 18, 2016

Galaxies

The Milky Way - plus 2 large nearby galaxies in our own Local Group, in the directions to the constellations Andromeda and Triangulum.

Deborah Byrd

March 16, 2016

Incredible solar eclipse footage from flight

Spectacular video shows last week's total solar eclipse from a redirected Alaska Airlines flight. Wish we all could have been there!

Deborah Byrd

March 15, 2016

Newest Mars mission on its way

Signals have been received from the ExoMars mission spacecraft, and the craft is in good health and on its way to Mars!

Deborah Byrd

Tom Edathikunnel

March 14, 2016

Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd (asteroid 3505 Byrd) helps edit EarthSky.org and is a frequent host of EarthSky videos. Deborah created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named in her honor in 1990, a Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2003, and the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society in 2020. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.