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Deborah Byrd

Mind-boggling Fermi Bubbles probed via quasar light

Among other discoveries, a team of astronomers found that the core of our Milky Way galaxy drives a wind at 2 million miles per hour.

Deborah Byrd

January 6, 2015

Video: Human population by the billions

When did our human population reach one billion? How long to add each billion after that, to bring us to the 7+ billion humans on Earth today? What's next?

Deborah Byrd

January 6, 2015

With one minute remaining, SpaceX aborts today’s launch of Falcon 9

The soonest Space X can try again to launch Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft - on a mission to resupply the International Space Station - is Friday.

Deborah Byrd

January 6, 2015

Reindeer under a New Year’s aurora

As 2015 opened, a beautiful aurora and reindeer gazing on northern tundra.

Deborah Byrd

January 6, 2015

Wow! Stunning new Pillars of Creation

One of the most beloved Hubble Space Telescope images is called the Pillars of Creation, first captured in 1995. Check out this new Hubble image of the pillars!

Deborah Byrd

January 5, 2015

Supernova in the Superwind Galaxy

This is a Type Ia supernova. A white dwarf pulls matter from its companion star until it begins to collapse. Suddenly .. bam! It explodes as a supernova.

Deborah Byrd

January 4, 2015

New video shows life in the deepest ocean

An international team of scientists has set a new record for the deepest known ocean fish. They were filming in the Mariana Trench - the deepest part of the ocean.

Deborah Byrd

January 3, 2015

Volcano shadow in Hawaii

Mountains cast shadows, of course, but it's not often we get this perspective on one. Thank you, Stephen Green of Imaginscape Photography!

Deborah Byrd

January 2, 2015

Planetary alignment January 4 will make us weigh less? Of course not

The idea we will all weigh less and even experience a floating sensation due to a planetary alignment on January 4, 2015 (#zeroday) is entirely false. Sigh.

Deborah Byrd

Bruce McClure

January 2, 2015

Cool animation shows Venus in evening sky in 2015

Watch 238 days of the sky's brightest planet, Venus, now back in your evening sky. You can also see Mercury, Mars and Jupiter enter the scene at various points.

Deborah Byrd

December 31, 2014

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.