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Eleanor Imster
T. rex had an air conditioner in its head
How did the huge dinosaurs stay cool? According to a new study, they did it much as today's alligators do, with a built-in 'air conditioner' on the top of their skulls.
September 9, 2019
Monster penguin was as tall as a person
An extinct species of giant penguin – over 5 feet (1.6 meters) tall – has been identified from fossils found in New Zealand.
September 6, 2019
ALMA images show what’s happening beneath Jupiter’s storms
New radio images made with the ALMA telescope provide a look at what's going on beneath Jupiter’s colorful storms and swirling clouds.
September 5, 2019
Wow! Night skies and petroglyphs
Gorgeous night skies over North America's best petroglyphs and ruins - and don't miss 2018’s Super Blue Moon lunar eclipse (at 1:03) - in Skyglow's newest video.
September 4, 2019
A dynamic dying star, caught by Hubble
This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope shows star death. It's a planetary nebula in the direction of the constellation Gemini the Twins.
August 31, 2019
Name NASA’s next Mars rover
The Mars 2020 rover, scheduled for launch next July, doesn't have a name yet. A NASA contest invites U.S. students grades K–12 to suggest names for the rover.
August 29, 2019
Cranes heading south from Sweden
A sign that summer is ending ... Jörgen Andersson in Sweden captured cranes migrating southward on August 21.
August 27, 2019
Perseids over Denmark
Perseid meteor shower 2019 over Scandinavia's 1st dark sky park, the island of Møn in Denmark.
August 17, 2019
It’s raining plastic in the Rocky Mountains
A USGS study identified plastic in more than 90% of rainwater samples taken from across Colorado.
August 15, 2019
Microplastics found in Lake Tahoe
Research at one of the world's clearest, cleanest lakes suggests the problem of microplastics is widespread in freshwater systems and not just in oceans.
August 15, 2019
