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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.

Yellow half circle on black background with white ring and a spacecraft in the middle of the image.

Saturn hasn’t always had rings

By in Space | 13 hours ago
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New findings suggest that Saturn’s rings formed only 10 to 100 million years ago, during the earthly age of the dinosaurs.

Easter Island monument mystery solved?

By in Human World | 4 days ago
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Researchers have long wondered why ancient people built the famous Easter Island monuments where they did.

Silhouettes of a man with his arming raised to throw, and 3 golden retrievers, on a beach against a yellow-orange sunset background.

Fetch!

By in Today's Image | 5 days ago
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Seaside, Oregon, at sunset.
Black cricket on a green leaf

Insects get old before they die

By in Earth | 6 days ago
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Short-lived insects, like crickets, “get old,” – that is, lose some of their physical abilities – before they die, new research shows.
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Video: 15 years of Mars images

By in Space | 7 days ago
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ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft began sending back images from its orbit around Mars in January 2004. Take 5 minutes to see some of the coolest images of the mission so far.

Whales share songs from other oceans

By in Earth | 1 week ago
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Singing humpback whales from different ocean basins seem to be picking up musical ideas from afar, and incorporating these new phrases and themes into their songs.

Here’s how Titan looks in infrared

By in Space | 1 week ago
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Saturn’s largest moon Titan is enveloped in a thick atmosphere, but the infrared camera on the Cassini spacecraft was able to reveal the moon’s myriad of surface features.
Ship on the water with a buoy in the foreground.

Oceans warming even faster than thought

By in Earth | 1 week ago
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A new analysis has found that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40% faster than a United Nations panel estimated 5 years ago.

The shrinking Aral Sea

By in Earth | Human World | 2 weeks ago
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The Aral Sea was once the world’s 4th-largest lake. But in the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted 2 major rivers to irrigate farmland, and the Aral Sea has been slowly disappearing ever since.

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Thousands of stars, including our sun, destined to turn into crystals

By and in Space | 2 weeks ago
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Astronomers now have the 1st direct evidence that white dwarf stars form crystal cores. Our sun is destined to become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.