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Deborah Byrd

Spider web, soybean field, sunrise

Unique perspective on an ordinary spider web, shot on the edge of a soybean field at sunrise.

Deborah Byrd

October 6, 2013

Video: London Zoo’s first tiger cub birth in 17 years

For 105 days, zookeepers monitored Sumatran tiger Melati through hidden cameras installed to keep an eye on her first birth. See the birth on this video.

Deborah Byrd

October 4, 2013

Exoplanet weather: Hot and cloudy, or hot and clear, again

First-ever map of the distribution of clouds on an exoplanet shows what the weather would be like on a light, hot, tidally locked world.

Deborah Byrd

October 3, 2013

Mars orbiter first to capture Comet ISON sweeping past Mars

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, have all tried to image Comet ISON in recent days as it swept past Mars. The orbiter's image is here.

Deborah Byrd

October 2, 2013

As Comet ISON sweeps past Mars October 1, most observations will happen

NASA and ESA announced earlier they were readying a flotilla of spacecraft to record the comet's passage near Mars. How much will the U.S. government shutdown interfere? Not much, it seems.

Deborah Byrd

October 1, 2013

View from space: Earthquake island before and after

“The island is really just a big pile of mud from the seafloor that got pushed up.” - Bill Barnhart, USGS geologist

Deborah Byrd

September 29, 2013

U.S. sees another bright fireball on September 27

September 2013 has been busy for sightings of bright fireballs. The one at 11:33 p.m. local time on September 27 was the 14th fireball sighting in the U.S. in September.

Deborah Byrd

September 28, 2013

6.8-magnitude earthquake rocks Pakistan on September 28

In a region of Pakistan said to be "desperate" following Tuesday's large earthquake, another earthquake struck earlier today.

Deborah Byrd

September 28, 2013

Two moons in the sky of Mars

Imagine standing on Mars, looking up, and seeing these two little moons passing overhead.

Deborah Byrd

September 27, 2013

Over 400 reports of large fireball over U.S. Midwest on September 26

People in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin saw it.

Deborah Byrd

September 26, 2013

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.