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Posts by
Eleanor Imster
Gorgeous Dry Tortugas night skies
The National Park Service normally doesn't allow night photography at the Dry Tortugas, but made an exception for this project.
July 30, 2016
How much warning for supervolcanoes?
Yellowstone supervolcano could deposit ash across the U.S. Northwest, clogging rivers and streams and affecting agriculture. How much advance warning might we have?
July 28, 2016
Being called a bird brain is no insult
A new study has found that bird brains have significantly more neurons than do mammal - even primate - brains of the same mass.
July 27, 2016
Trio of solar flares
The sun emitted 3 mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016. This is what NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory saw.
July 27, 2016
A year of Earth from a million miles
Watch a full year of Earth's sunlit side, seen from a million miles away by the DSCOVR spacecraft.
July 24, 2016
Waiting for the storm
Anthony Lynch said he "waited all night for this storm in Ireland, but it missed us and went across the sea around 3 a.m."
July 23, 2016
1st half of 2016 warmest on record
The 6-month period from January to June was our planet's warmest half-year in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880.
July 21, 2016
Interactive 360 degree Milky Way
See the full band of the Milky Way in an interactive full-sphere image taken June 14, 2016 on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
July 20, 2016
Last light at Mauna Kea summit
The sun sinks over the observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano.
July 17, 2016
Watch wind flowing across US in real time
The wind map updates every hour and lets you see the movement, flow, and speeds of wind across the United States. Go see it! It's great!
July 16, 2016
