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Posts by
Deborah Byrd
X2 solar flare on May 5
The flare created a pulse of UV radiation and X-rays that caused a strong radio blackout over the Pacific.
May 6, 2015
Nugget Point in New Zealand
"Sometimes you know you are in the right place at the right time. That you are doing what you are meant to be doing. That it all comes together and your heart sings."
May 6, 2015
Huge salty aquifer found under Antarctica
Antarctica's Dry Valleys are home to briny lakes at the surface. Now scientists find liquid salt water - possibly containing unknown ecosystems - below ground.
May 5, 2015
What bird song looks like at dawn
A meadowlark sings as dawn breaks at the Ninepipes National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Montana.
May 5, 2015
Dinosaur-killing asteroid caused India’s Deccan Traps?
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago might have mobilized an existing volcanic system, causing vast lava flows.
May 4, 2015
Crescent comet
The co-orbit around the sun of the Rosetta spacecraft and Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko lets the spacecraft see the comet, at times, in a crescent phase.
May 3, 2015
MESSENGER’s final image from Mercury
A last image from the MESSENGER spacecraft before crashing onto Mercury's surface on Thursday. So long, MESSENGER, and thank you.
April 30, 2015
Mercury and the Pleiades
The elusive planet Mercury and the lovely Seven Sisters are low in the west after sunset now. Watch for them.
April 30, 2015
Latest New Horizons images of Pluto
There may be an ice cap at Pluto's pole, as seen in the most recent images from the New Horizons spacecraft, now only 11 weeks from its historic flyby on July 14.
April 29, 2015
Save me from light
An astrophotographer's lament, from the Muriwai hilltops in New Zealand.
April 29, 2015
