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EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd

Posted by in Human World | Science Wire | Space | January 11, 2016

All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!

Three-and-a-half minutes of Deborah delivering the news … and an awesome two-and-a-half minutes of Chris Hadfield’s now-classic rendition of Bowie’s Space Oddity, delivered from ISS. RIP, David Bowie.

This week … see video of SpaceX’s sea-going and land-based attempts to land a rocket upright, a belch from a supermassive black hole, and get an update on the magnificent planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft.

Special thanks to Slooh.com for producing this video.

Producer: Tricia Ennis

Assistant Producer: Ryan Little

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Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. 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.

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