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Eleanor Imster

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. Today, as Lead Editor at EarthSky.org, she helps present the science and nature stories and photos you enjoy. She also serves as one of the voices of EarthSky on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and G+. She and her husband live in Tennessee and have two grown sons.

Bird perched on a twig in front of a blue sky and faint while moon.

Sweet bird

Posted by in Today's Image | 2 days ago
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Bettina Berg captured this sweet image of a bird and the moon in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 6, 2019.

A deep look at Orion

Posted by in Today's Image | 3 days ago
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This composite – made of 7 images – will show you what the eye alone can’t see in the area of the sky in and around the constellation Orion.

TESS watched a black hole tear apart a star

Posted by in Space | 4 days ago
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TESS watched a black hole tear apart a star from start to finish, a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event.

Bug dark blue circle with a swath of white cutting through it.

TESS planet-hunter shows you the southern sky

Posted by in Space | Today's Image | 5 days ago
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Mosaic of the southern sky constructed from 208 images by NASA’s TESS spacecraft, taken during the mission’s first year of science operations.

This ancient rhino roamed the Yukon

Posted by in Earth | 5 days ago
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Fossils suggest that a long-extinct cousin of today’s rhinoceroses tromped through the forests of Northwest Canada roughly 8 to 9 million years ago.
Man standing in the center of a giant crystal doughnut.

Scientists study world’s biggest geode

Posted by and in Earth | Human World | 1 week ago
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Scientists recently studied the formation of the huge crystals inside the giant geode of Pulpí, located deep in a Spanish mine. They revealed the natural process that grew the crystals, ripening them over thousands of years and making them literally crystal clear.

Widening yellow to orange circles with a black ball in the center.

How to find a wormhole … if they exist

Posted by in Space | 2 weeks ago
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A team of physicists proposes that perturbations in the orbits of stars near supermassive black holes could be used to detect wormholes … if they exist.
Glowing orbs in space that look like a spooky mask.

Hubble brings you a spooky cosmic face

Posted by in Today's Image | 2 weeks ago
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This ghostly face, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 19, is actually a collision of 2 galaxies of about equal size, 704 million light-years from Earth.

Silhouette of a tree against a purple-pink sky, small dot of light on the upper left.

Jupiter at sunset

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Jim AndRobin Moore in Nitro, West Virginia, captured Jupiter as the sun was setting on Monday.

Cosmic saguaro

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Saguaro cactus in the starlight, in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona.