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Eleanor Imster
Chaotic clouds of Jupiter
Juno captured this image of swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during the spacecraft's 13th close flyby of Jupiter in May.
July 6, 2018
Scientists listen to ocean bubbles
A research team recorded the sound of methane bubbles seeping from the seafloor off the Oregon coast, with the aim of using acoustics to identify – and perhaps measure – this important greenhouse gas in the ocean.
July 4, 2018
Dust from Africa spreads into the Americas
This past weekend, a massive dust cloud from Africa's Sahara Desert swept across the Atlantic and caused hazy skies across Texas, Mexico and parts of Central America.
July 3, 2018
Lotus
The Southeast Botanical Gardens in Okinawa, Japan, has a lotus festival every summer. "They’re blooming now!" said photographer Beverly Fish.
June 29, 2018
Great white sharks dive deep into warm-water whirlpools
Researchers tracked 2 great white sharks to find out where they spend their time. Watch a cool video of the tricky job of tagging Lydia, a great white swimming in Florida waters.
June 27, 2018
Arrival
A sliding rock under the Milky Way at Racetrack Playa in California's Death Valley. Photo by Yuri Beletsky.
June 23, 2018
Fossils of 2 new creatures from dawn of animal life
Researchers found the 2 fossils in a South Australian fossil bed dubbed "Alice’s Restaurant Bed,” a tribute to the Arlo Guthrie song lyric “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
June 20, 2018
Midnight sun over Norway
Tommy Richardsen captured this gorgeous image in Nordreisa, Northern Norway, a few minutes before midnight on June 13, 2018.
June 20, 2018
Bees understand the concept of zero
Scientists just learned that honeybees can understand the concept of zero. That puts bees in an elite club of clever animals - some birds, monkeys, humans - that can grasp the abstract notion of nothing.
June 17, 2018
New image of the Tarantula Nebula
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our Milky Way's satellite galaxies.
June 17, 2018
