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Posts by
Deborah Byrd
Bright basin on Tethys
After so many amazing images of Pluto and Charon, it's time to remember some other fascinating worlds within our solar system. Here is Saturn's moon, Tethys ...
July 28, 2015
Tiny, but still densest known galaxies
Smaller in width than our Milky Way, their stars are packed 10,000 to a million times more densely than in our sun's neighborhood. Imagine the night sky!
July 27, 2015
6.9-magnitude strikes Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
This region is on the Pacific Ocean's 'ring of fire' - where great land plates meet and one dives beneath another - and so is subject to frequent earthquakes.
July 27, 2015
Latest images of Pluto’s flowing ice
Latest images from NASA's July 14, 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft, showing evidence of an active surface on Pluto with flowing nitrogen ice.
July 27, 2015
Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk
Two stars in a double system are not playing nice. One star, a pulsar, has punched a hole in the disk of the other, sending debris outward at 7% of light speed!
July 26, 2015
Best photos of the comet
Comet C/2014 Q1 (PANSTARRS) is easiest to catch in binoculars from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Many have captured dazzling photos of the comet.
July 24, 2015
Kepler-452b is older, bigger Earth cousin
The Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone - or zone where liquid water can exist - around a sunlike star.
July 23, 2015
What black holes like to eat
Astronomers have caught a monster black hole in the act of eating a star. But, they say, stars are not standard fare for black holes.
July 23, 2015
Double red rainbow over New Mexico
It's rare to see a red rainbow. Sky conditions have to be just right, and the timing has to be right. If you do see one, you'll never forget it.
July 23, 2015
