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Eleanor Imster
Unseen siblings for Milky Way’s supermassive black hole?
Our Milky Way galaxy is known to have a supermassive black hole at its heart. Could more supermassive black holes be lurking unseen at our galaxy's outskirts?
April 27, 2018
Record microplastic found in Arctic sea ice
New research shows that even the Arctic Ocean isn't immune to an influx of plastic.
April 26, 2018
Judge’s Shack
The Milky Way rising over the historic Judge’s Shack in Island Beach State Park in New Jersey.
April 26, 2018
Giant ichthyosaur one of largest animals ever
The new discovery of a jaw bone suggests that this prehistoric aquatic reptile would have been about the size of a blue whale.
April 25, 2018
Watch the mating dance of a new bird species
Be a birder for a few minutes, and enjoy the distinctive song, dance and courtship display of a newly recognized Bird-of-Paradise, in new videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
April 25, 2018
These sea turtles use magnetic fields like GPS
"They might not always make it back to the exact beach where they were born, and instead might opt for beaches with similar magnetic properties, as if their internal GPS has just slightly mixed up addresses."
April 24, 2018
Antarctic Milky Way selfie
Jorgelina Alvarez of AstroLina Photography took this selfie at the Marambio Research Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.
April 20, 2018
See it! Moon sweeps past Venus
Wonderful photos from the EarthSky community of the moon's sweep this week past the brightest planet, Venus.
April 18, 2018
March 2018 in top 6 warmest on record
Last month wasn't as hot as March 2016 or March 2017, but it's in the warmest 6 since modern record-keeping began in 1880.
April 18, 2018
April snow in Georgia
Scott Kuhn captured this image after a rare April snow in northern Georgia.
April 18, 2018
