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.

Morning moon

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 1 min ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

Photographer Lee Capps captured this week’s morning moon from North Carolina. Thanks, Lee!

Illustration of white hyenas on a mound of rocks.

Ancient hyenas roamed the Arctic

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 2 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

The ice age hyenas may have hunted caribou and horses, or scavenged carcasses of mammoths on a cold treeless tundra, says a study of 2 fossil teeth.

Orbital view. Land at left, ocean at right, white lines (roads) and small white patches (pads).

Apollo 11 launch pad

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 3 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

A satellite image from January 2019 shows launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. From there – on July 16, 1969 – a Saturn V rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 11 launched humanity’s historic voyage to the moon.

Record wettest 12 months for US, again

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 4 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

Wet conditions from July 2018 through June 2019 resulted in a new 12-month precipitation record in the US

Cactus blossom near Shimla, India

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 5 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

Contributed by our friend Swami Krishnananda, a photo essay of a walk up a hillside near Shimla, India, closer and closer to a cactus blossom, with thoughts on impermanence.