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Eleanor Imster
Tennessee double rainbow
Becky Gillum captured this double rainbow in Cherokee Lake, Tennessee. She said, "With all the storms we've been having, it was only a matter of time until a rainbow appeared."
July 25, 2018
Mars from the International Space Station
Astronaut photo of Mars from the International Space Station (ISS), In this image, Mars has been highlighted and enlarged 20 times.
July 20, 2018
Witness the birth of an iceberg
This iceberg broke off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier on June 22. If laid atop New York City, it'd stretch from lower Manhattan to Midtown.
July 19, 2018
Listen as Saturn and its moon interact
Spacecraft observations reveal plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus. Researchers converted a recording of the plasma waves into an audible cosmic whoosh that you’ll enjoy.
July 17, 2018
Asteroid 2017 YE5 turns out to be double
Asteroid 2017 YE5 swept by Earth in late June. Turns out, it’s a double asteroid, with both bodies almost identical in size and not touching - only the 4th such object ever detected.
July 14, 2018
Geyser and Milky Way
Milky Way over Biscuit Basin, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park .
July 14, 2018
Heads up on July 2019 total solar eclipse
A 5-minute video from the European Southern Observatory on the 2019 eclipse in South America and the South Pacific. Eclipse map, and more.
July 8, 2018
T. Rex couldn’t stick out its tongue
You've seen the picture: a fearsome T. Rex, baring its teeth, tongue stretching out of its mouth. But new research says there's a problem with this classic image. Dinosaurs couldn’t stick out their tongues.
July 6, 2018
