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Posts by
Eleanor Imster
See it! Jupiter, Venus and the young moon
Have you been watching Jupiter, Venus and the moon these past few evenings? Enjoy these photos from the EarthSky community. Thanks to all who shared!
September 14, 2018
Milky Way from behind the clouds
Photographer April Singer wrote: "Mars just made it into the shot on the far left. Taken at 9:45 p.m. September 8. We have a great view here in New Mexico, USA."
September 12, 2018
Summer 2018 was 4th hottest on record for U.S.
Summer 2018 - the months of June, July, and August - was the 4th hottest on record for the contiguous United States, according to a NOAA analysis
September 10, 2018
4 planets from Hong Kong
Photographer Matthew Chin captured planets Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus in the sky over Yuen Long, Hong Kong on September 6, 208.
September 8, 2018
South Carolina sunrise
Fran Aquino captured Monday's sunrise on Garden City Beach, South Carolina. Gorgeous!
September 7, 2018
Hear the sounds of the sun
Listen to the vibration of the sun. "It has a warmth to it. It's just enough where I can almost feel the sound on my skin."
September 6, 2018
Love vines suck life from wasps, leaving mummies
For the first time, biologists have documented dueling parasites in South Florida. When love vines do battle with gall wasps, the result is wasp mummies.
September 5, 2018
Watch it get hotter, 1880-2017
An anomaly is something that deviates from what's standard, or expected. This global warming visualization - created by Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute - shows yearly temperature anomalies by country.
September 4, 2018
Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause
Besides humans, only 4 species are known to experience menopause, and they're all whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.
August 31, 2018
Hybrid super-snakes in South Florida?
Interbreeding between Burmese and Indian pythons in South Florida might have resulted in what geneticists call "hybrid vigor." One result is that the snakes seem to have adapted to both swamps and high, dry ground.
August 29, 2018
