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Eleanor Imster

Galaxy quakes in our Milky Way

Astronomers say they can use "galactoseismology" - the study of ripples in a galaxy's disk - to map the interior structure of galaxies and learn about dark matter.

Deborah Byrd

Eleanor Imster

January 13, 2016

Most distant massive galaxy cluster

Astronomers have detected a massive, churning galaxy cluster - with potentially thousands of individual galaxies - in the early universe.

Eleanor Imster

January 11, 2016

Gorgeous timelapse of California skies

Southern California night skies ... looking from inside massive sea caves and across miles of inland desert. Wonder Endlessly timelapse by Jack Fusco.

Eleanor Imster

January 9, 2016

Can you spot a third moon?

Three of Saturn's moons appear in this image. Two are easy to spot. Can you find the third? Hint: It's tiny!

Eleanor Imster

January 7, 2016

Astronomers find dozens of runaway stars

As water piles up before a ship, so material stacks up ahead of high-mass stars moving fast through space. These cosmic bows shocks revealed the runaway stars.

Eleanor Imster

January 6, 2016

Earth ABCs from space

HNY - Happy New Year! All 26 letters of the alphabet, spelled out in Earth's features as seen from orbit.

Eleanor Imster

January 1, 2016

NASA suspends 2016 launch of InSight Mars mission

NASA has called off the planned March 2016 launch of the InSight mission to Mars, following failure to repair a leaky instrument in the science payload.

Eleanor Imster

December 24, 2015

Science fireplace

Warm up your holidays with this crackling science fireplace. It takes about an hour for the whole log to burn.

Eleanor Imster

December 23, 2015

Climate change rapidly warming world’s lakes

Lakes around the world are warming rapidly, threatening ecosystems and water supplies, says a new study that looked at more than half of Earth's freshwater supply.

Eleanor Imster

December 23, 2015

Global impacts of strong 2015 El Niño

People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98.

Eleanor Imster

December 16, 2015

Eleanor Imster

Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.