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Northern lights over Montana
Northern Lights from top of Beartooth Pass, Montana, by EarthSky Facebook friend Kevin Harrell
June 30, 2013
Zapping salt out of seawater
Chemists are hopeful their new energy-efficient method to desalinate water can be scaled up for personal or even municipal uses
June 28, 2013
Voyager spacecraft explores final frontier of our solar bubble
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.
June 28, 2013
Exploring dinosaur growth
Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists have shown how one of the best-known dinosaurs switched from four feet to two as it grew.
June 28, 2013
Colorado Black Forest fire burn scar
The June 2013 Black Forest fire was the most destructive in Colorado's history.
June 28, 2013
World’s largest urban bat colony
World's largest urban bat colony captured from under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, TX thanks to our friend Pamela Phillips.
June 28, 2013
Extreme weather likely for U.S. for end of June
Record breaking heat is possible across the U.S. Southwest as temperatures warm well into the 100s. Could we hit the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
June 27, 2013
Gas-giant exoplanets cling close to their parent stars
Around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of planetary formation could be significant.
June 27, 2013
View from space: Early start for noctilucent clouds
Satellite images show noctilucent clouds in Earth’s upper atmosphere, centered on the North Pole.
June 27, 2013
