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Posts by
Eleanor Imster
Planets in perspective
Morning planets in front of the Milky Way identifying the ecliptic and the galactic plane.
March 21, 2019
Storm in a cosmic teacup
Nicknamed the Teacup because of its shape, this quasar is causing a cosmic storm in a distant galaxy. The source of the squall is a supermassive black hole buried at a galaxy's center.
March 18, 2019
Venus, Saturn, Jupiter
These 3 planets - 2 very bright ones and a fainter one - are lined up in the early morning sky now, nearly equidistant from each other.
March 16, 2019
A new species of killer whale?
In January, scientists captured footage of what might be a new species of killer whale near Antarctica.
March 15, 2019
Frozen waves on Lake Michigan
Frozen waves on Lake Michigan, in a photo by Glenn Hughson.
March 15, 2019
Galaxy with a tail
This striking image shows just a part of the spectacular tail emerging from a spiral galaxy nicknamed D100.
March 14, 2019
A sign of spring
A bluebird on a snowy day in Massachusetts is a sign that spring is coming.
March 13, 2019
Why are some icebergs green?
A new idea might solve a decades-long scientific mystery about why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue.
March 12, 2019
Moon, Mars and me
Niko Powe waved a sparkler at the starry sky. He wrote, "Sirius, Orion, Hyades, Pleiades, the moon, Mars, and me."
March 12, 2019
Thousands of tiny ice quakes shake Antarctica at night
Stay overnight on an Antarctic ice shelf, and you might feel the shaking from thousands of tiny quakes as the ice re-forms after melting during the day.
March 11, 2019
