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Eleanor Imster
Polar vortex 2019 photos and videos
Here's a glimpse of what the bone-chilling conditions in the U.S. Midwest this week look like.
January 31, 2019
A few favorite snowflake photos
We asked last week at EarthSky Community Photos for your snowflake images, then sat back and were dazzled by the beautiful and amazing photos you posted!
January 28, 2019
Saturn hasn’t always had rings
New findings suggest that Saturn's rings formed only 10 to 100 million years ago, during the earthly age of the dinosaurs.
January 23, 2019
Easter Island monument mystery solved?
Researchers have long wondered why ancient people built the famous Easter Island monuments where they did.
January 20, 2019
Insects get old before they die
Short-lived insects, like crickets, “get old," - that is, lose some of their physical abilities – before they die, new research shows.
January 18, 2019
Video: 15 years of Mars images
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft began sending back images from its orbit around Mars in January 2004. Take 5 minutes to see some of the coolest images of the mission so far.
January 17, 2019
Whales share songs from other oceans
Singing humpback whales from different ocean basins seem to be picking up musical ideas from afar, and incorporating these new phrases and themes into their songs.
January 16, 2019
Here’s how Titan looks in infrared
Saturn’s largest moon Titan is enveloped in a thick atmosphere, but the infrared camera on the Cassini spacecraft was able to reveal the moon’s myriad of surface features.
January 16, 2019
Oceans warming even faster than thought
A new analysis has found that Earth's oceans are heating up 40% faster than a United Nations panel estimated 5 years ago.
January 14, 2019
