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Deborah Byrd

View from space: Flooding in eastern Australia in early February, 2013

By early February, the Weir River in eastern Australia had broken its banks and spread onto the surrounding floodplain, as had nearby rivers.

Deborah Byrd

February 6, 2013

Video: Sunrise and sunset from the moon

This video, from the Kurdistan Planetarium in the U.K., shows the sun rising as seen from the moon's surface and setting two weeks later.

Deborah Byrd

February 6, 2013

Five dead in Solomon Islands after earthquake and tsunami

Powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck at 01:22 UTC on February 6. Tsunami alerts across the Pacific. At least five dead in a remote part of the Solomon Islands.

Deborah Byrd

February 6, 2013

Comet Lemmon brighter than expected

This comet is visible with binoculars or telescopes now from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. It's still getting brighter.

Deborah Byrd

February 6, 2013

Winter sunset at Lulea River in northern Sweden

Birgit Boden captured this image at sunset - around 3 p.m. - on February 3, 2013.

Deborah Byrd

February 5, 2013

Dogs do it. Dolphins do it. Now corn, too, displays altruism.

Researchers studying corn seeds have found evidence that full "siblings" preferentially feed each other. They describe this behavior as altruism among corn.

Deborah Byrd

February 4, 2013

Video: Golden ring, and dragon tail, from our sun

The sun released two especially interesting and beautiful features on January 31, 2013. See pics and video of the ring-shaped prominence and Dragon Tail filament here.

David Callejas

Deborah Byrd

February 3, 2013

Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area in eastern Arizona

Today's image shows Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area. It's desert today, but, millions of years ago, it was a floodplain populated by stately trees.

Deborah Byrd

February 3, 2013

6.0-magnitude earthquake in southeast Alaska on January 31

This Alaska quake is one of several moderately large earthquakes that happened yesterday and today along the eastern edge of the Ring of Fire.

Deborah Byrd

January 31, 2013

View from space: Severe weather in U.S. East on January 30

In this image from the NOAA GOES-13 satellite, you can see a line of clouds that stretch from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Deborah Byrd

January 30, 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.