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.

Researchers describe 71 new species in 2019

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 9 hours ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

New species from 5 continents and 3 oceans include geckos, goblin spiders, flowering plants, and Mediterranean ants.

New biomass map takes stock of Earth’s carbon

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 3 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

ESA released the 1st of a series of global maps aimed at quantifying change in carbon stored as biomass across the world’s forests and shrublands.

Hubble spots galaxy’s dramatic details

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

Posted by Eleanor Imster

Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 5468.

Astronomers catch a comet outburst

Posted by Deborah Byrd and Eleanor Imster in Space | 5 days ago

Posted by Deborah Byrd and Eleanor Imster

Remember comet 46P/Wirtanen? It was a bright comet about this time last year. Around the time it swept near the Earth and sun, the comet entered the field of view NASA’s TESS planet-hunter. And boom! It underwent an outburst, caught by TESS.

How does the solar wind affect Earth?

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | Space | 6 days ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

Why should we care about the new findings – released this week – from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe? This new NASA video explains how the solar wind – a stream of charged particles from the sun – affects earthly astronauts and technologies.

Active 2019 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end

Posted by Eleanor Imster in Earth | 1 week ago

Posted by Eleanor Imster

The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended on November 30, produced 18 named storms, including 6 hurricanes, 3 of which were major (Category 3, 4 or 5).

Close-up of central peak of Bhabha crater.

Sunrise at the moon’s Bhabha crater

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

Posted by Eleanor Imster

A day on the moon lasts about an earthly month, so dawn comes to each part of the moon only that often. In this view from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, you can see a crater’s central peak illuminated by sunlight, while the crater floor remains dark.