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Posts by
Deborah Byrd
Jupiter and three moon shadows
It's cool when you catch a shadow of one of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter, moving across Jupiter's cloudtops. Here are three shadows at once, from June 3.
June 4, 2014
Asteroids that buzz Earth
Cool infographic showing asteroids that will come closest to Earth in the next 200 years.
June 3, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Watch online Tuesday as asteroid passes at moon’s distance
Asteroid 2014 KH39 will pass just outside the moon's distance on Tuesday, June 3, at around 3 p.m. CDT (20 UTC). Watch live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
June 3, 2014
Crowd-funded project aims to build world’s first simulated organism
It will be the world’s most detailed virtual life form — an accurate, open-source, digital version of a worm called C. elegans.
May 28, 2014
A gamma ray burst from the Andromeda galaxy yesterday? No.
No GRB in M31. False alarm. Darn.
May 28, 2014
April 2014 tied with warmest on record, or second-warmest
Yes, some of us in North America have been shivering this spring. But our local weather is not the whole story.
May 27, 2014
Fireflies and stars
If you're star-watching, try capturing a few photos of fireflies, too.
May 26, 2014
Scientists: Superbug threat as grave as climate change
Infectious disease specialists spoke out last week about the poor response of the world so far to the dire threat of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
May 25, 2014
Five awesome photos of meteors
Meteor rates for Friday night's Camelopardalid shower were low. But, thanks to astronomers' shower predictions, many were outside that night and captured meteor photos.
May 25, 2014
