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Eleanor Imster
Midnight sun over Norway
Tommy Richardsen wrote, "Wish you all a good weekend with this image of the midnight sun shining beautifully on my hometown."
June 25, 2016
Wow! Watch sandstorm reshape dunes
Journey to White Sands, New Mexico and watch sandstorms reshape and move the dunes, under both blue and starry skies, in this gorgeous time-lapse.
June 24, 2016
Fastest CO2 increase on record
The recent El Niño has driven a rise in atmospheric CO2. Scientists expect it to surpass 400 parts per million for the year and stay there at least a human lifetime.
June 15, 2016
Why your GPS twinkles
Radio signals twinkle much as stars do. This can have an effect on your GPS.
June 14, 2016
Humans domesticated dogs twice, says study
New research suggests that dogs were domesticated not once, but twice, in different parts of the world.
June 7, 2016
SDO peers into huge coronal hole
A NASA animation from May 17-19, 2016 shows a coronal hole in our sun's hot outer atmosphere, or corona. Should we be scared?
May 31, 2016
Is dark matter made of black holes?
What if if dark matter consisted of a population of black holes similar to those detected by LIGO last year? A new study analyzes this possibility.
May 28, 2016
Clues to birth of supermassive black holes
Astrophysicists have taken a major step forward in understanding how these monster black holes are born.
May 28, 2016
Saturn’s south polar vortex
A monstrous vortex sits at Saturn's south pole. It's not just beautiful. It also lets astronomers peer deep into Saturn's dense atmosphere.
May 28, 2016
Best close-up of Pluto’s surface
The most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015.
May 28, 2016
