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Deborah Byrd

And now … a real ISS transit of Saturn

A fake image ran in APOD a few days ago, but this video of an International Space Station transit across the face of Saturn looks real.

Deborah Byrd

January 26, 2016

X-ray view of Earth’s aurora

An ESA space observatory was looking for something else when it caught these X-ray images of an aurora.

Deborah Byrd

January 26, 2016

Star trails over Forbidden City, Beijing

Below, the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, former home of the Chinese emperor and a center of Chinese government. Above, the Forbidden City's sky counterpart.

Deborah Byrd

January 26, 2016

Loneliest known exoplanet and its star

The exoplanet labeled 2MASS J2126 has the widest orbit of any planet ever found. Its "year" is nearly 1 million Earth-years long.

Deborah Byrd

January 25, 2016

EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd

All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!

Deborah Byrd

January 25, 2016

Zoom to super luminous Milky Way stars

New Hubble Space Telescope video zooms in on Trumpler 14, a young cluster of hot, massive, bright stars - some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy!

Deborah Byrd

January 25, 2016

Blizzard by moonlight

This weekend's full moon illuminated the raging blizzard on the U.S. East Coast. A satellite caught the view from above.

Deborah Byrd

January 24, 2016

Magnitude-7.1 earthquake in Alaska

There were no reports of injuries, but the powerful earthquake left a fair amount of cleanup to do, plus some frightened people in Alaska.

Deborah Byrd

January 24, 2016

Are the aliens extinct?

Australian astrobiologists say an early Armageddon on most distant worlds makes advanced lifeforms unlikely. If true, our Milky Way galaxy is a lonely place.

Deborah Byrd

January 24, 2016

Winter hurricane in North Atlantic

Alex was the earliest hurricane in the North Atlantic since 1938 and the fourth January hurricane in 150 years of record-keeping.

Deborah Byrd

January 23, 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.