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Deborah Byrd

A whole lotta love for your 22 minutes of science and music, EarthSky 22

Check out EarthSky 22 - the best new science podcast on the Internet - featured today through the weekend on NSF's Science360 news service.

Deborah Byrd

March 30, 2012

Minimoons may be usual orbiting Earth

Astronomers used a supercomputer to simulate the passage asteroids past Earth, resulting in the insight that Earth frequently has "minimoons."

Deborah Byrd

March 30, 2012

A camera that can see around corners

Great new video shows a new camera that can see around corners - how it works. Neat! The camera was developed by researchers at MIT.

Deborah Byrd

March 28, 2012

Brain cells hold memories, say researchers

Researchers say brain cells hold memories. Memory engrams - traces of memory do reside in brain cells, say researchers from MIT and Stanford.

Deborah Byrd

March 26, 2012

Edge of the electromagnetic spectrum brings mysteries

Probing the universe at the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has just completed an all-sky map.

Deborah Byrd

March 26, 2012

Warmest decade since 1850 in 2001-2010

During 2001-2010 , the warmest decade, "numerous weather and climate extremes affected almost every part of the globe" with flooding, droughts, and more.

Deborah Byrd

March 26, 2012

James Cameron returns, after record-breaking dive to deepest ocean

James Cameron's record-breaking dive took him into the 6.8-mile-deep (11-kilometer-deep) undersea Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Deborah Byrd

March 26, 2012

ISS crew took shelter to avoid passing space junk

In the third incident of its kind in more than a decade, the six-member crew of ISS took shelter Saturday when space junk whizzed past.

Deborah Byrd

March 25, 2012

Runaway planets moving at relativistic speeds are possible

If a double star system - one with planets - encountered the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way, the result might be a runaway planets.

Deborah Byrd

March 25, 2012

Emerald-cut galaxy found by astonrom

An emerald-cut galaxy? It makes you smile because it shouldn't exist, or rather, you don't expect it to exist, one of the astronomers said.

Deborah Byrd

March 21, 2012

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.