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Deborah Byrd

Best photos: Amazing moon and planets October 7-11

Best photos of the moon's glorious sweep past the planets Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. Photos from EarthSky friends. October 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Deborah Byrd

October 11, 2015

Mars Curiosity rover sends a postcard

If you want to imagine standing on the surface of the Red Planet Mars ... look at this.

Deborah Byrd

October 10, 2015

Mysterious ripples race across planet-forming disk

Astronomers have found fast-moving wave-like features - ripples - in the dusty disk surrounding a young star. Nothing like this was ever observed or predicted.

Deborah Byrd

October 9, 2015

NASA orbiter views real ‘Martian’ sites

Real-life views of places on Mars where a fictional stranded astronaut, Mark Watney - from the Hollywood movie The Martian - undergoes his many trials.

Deborah Byrd

October 9, 2015

Traveling at warp speed through aurora territory

Fun photo from a great nature photographer, Göran Strand in Sweden.

Deborah Byrd

October 9, 2015

See Wednesday’s rocket launch from U.S. mid-Atlantic

Time will be 7 p.m. EDT this evening. People in a wide swath of U.S. mid-Atlantic states can see it, if skies are clear.

Deborah Byrd

October 6, 2015

NASA shortlists 5 possible new missions

NASA has announced five investigations for further study in its latest competition for new, relatively small-scale, robotic missions into our solar system.

Deborah Byrd

October 4, 2015

Video lets you imagine Earth breathing

NASA video simulating a massive typhoon spinning toward China, with something extra added. Plus a word about the Gaia hypothesis.

Deborah Byrd

October 4, 2015

Planets, east before dawn, October 2, 2015

Don't miss these bright planets in the east before dawn. They'll perform an intricate dance throughout October, 2015.

Deborah Byrd

October 4, 2015

Stars over Mount Rainier

A beautiful place to see the night sky and contemplate nature's power.

Deborah Byrd

October 3, 2015

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.