Images of rainbows from all over the world taken by EarthSky’s Facebook friends. Beautiful!
Posts by Eleanor
A video that shows the massive tornado outbreak in the U.S. Great Plains on April 14-15, 2012 – the way it looked from space.
Alive inside! Watch this wonderful video of an elderly man in a nursing home reacting to music.
In 2009, one in every 30 babies born in the United States was a twin. That’s compared with one baby in every 53 in 1980.
Researchers have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla. It turns out that about 15% of our genome more closely resembles the gorilla’s than the chimpanzee’s.
Be careful what you bring home in your suitcase. These days, you might unpack a tiny vampire. Bed bugs are back! And they feed on human blood.
Like human beings, big reef fish have strong preferences on where they like to hang out.
A new study suggests that people who feel powerful tend to overestimate their own height… that is, they feel physically larger than they actually are.
This photograph, taken January 4, 2012 from Houston, Texas, juxtaposes Earth’s oldest satellite, the moon, with one of its newest, the International Space Station.
Here are the first ever photos of the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, a species new to science, discovered by conservationists in 2010.









