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Eleanor Imster
10 years 10 suns
From ESA's Proba-2 satellite, images of the sun in January or February of each year from 2010 to 2019. This mosaic neatly shows the variability in the solar atmosphere in beautiful detail.
November 14, 2019
Some microbes eat electricity
Scientists have discovered that certain microbes get energy from electrical charges. What’s more, it turns out that these microbes are very common.
November 13, 2019
Moon halo over Pikes Peak
This ring around the moon is called a 22-degree halo by skywatchers. The mountain below is Pikes Peak, in Colorado, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rockies.
November 13, 2019
Sweet bird
Bettina Berg captured this sweet image of a bird and the moon in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 6, 2019.
November 9, 2019
A deep look at Orion
This composite - made of 7 images - will show you what the eye alone can't see in the area of the sky in and around the constellation Orion.
November 8, 2019
TESS watched a black hole tear apart a star
TESS watched a black hole tear apart a star from start to finish, a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event.
November 7, 2019
TESS planet-hunter shows you the southern sky
Mosaic of the southern sky constructed from 208 images by NASA’s TESS spacecraft, taken during the mission’s first year of science operations.
November 6, 2019
This ancient rhino roamed the Yukon
Fossils suggest that a long-extinct cousin of today’s rhinoceroses tromped through the forests of Northwest Canada roughly 8 to 9 million years ago.
November 6, 2019
Scientists study world’s biggest geode
Scientists recently studied the formation of the huge crystals inside the giant geode of Pulpí, located deep in a Spanish mine. They revealed the natural process that grew the crystals, ripening them over thousands of years and making them literally crystal clear.
November 2, 2019
How to find a wormhole … if they exist
A team of physicists proposes that perturbations in the orbits of stars near supermassive black holes could be used to detect wormholes ... if they exist.
October 30, 2019
