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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.

Listen as Saturn and its moon interact

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Spacecraft observations reveal plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus. Researchers converted a recording of the plasma waves into an audible cosmic whoosh that you’ll enjoy.

Asteroid 2017 YE5 turns out to be double

By and in Space | 5 days ago
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Asteroid 2017 YE5 swept by Earth in late June. Turns out, it’s a double asteroid, with both bodies almost identical in size and not touching – only the 4th such object ever detected.

Geyser and Milky Way

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Milky Way over Biscuit Basin, in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park .

See it! Crepuscular rays

By and in Earth | 7 days ago
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Those beams of light shooting out from the horizon or down from the clouds are called crepuscular rays, or sunrays. Beautiful, mysterious and very noticeable.

July sunrise

By in Today's Image | 7 days ago
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Yesterday’s sunrise over the Potomac River at Fort Hunt, Virginia.

Heads up on July 2019 total solar eclipse

By in Astronomy Essentials | Human World | 2 weeks ago
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A 5-minute video from the European Southern Observatory on the 2019 eclipse in South America and the South Pacific. Eclipse map, and more.

T. Rex couldn’t stick out its tongue

By in Earth | 2 weeks ago
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You’ve seen the picture: a fearsome T. Rex, baring its teeth, tongue stretching out of its mouth. But new research says there’s a problem with this classic image. Dinosaurs couldn’t stick out their tongues.

Chaotic clouds of Jupiter

By in Today's Image | 2 weeks ago
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Juno captured this image of swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 13th close flyby of Jupiter in May.

Scientists listen to ocean bubbles

By in Earth | Human World | 2 weeks ago
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A research team recorded the sound of methane bubbles seeping from the seafloor off the Oregon coast, with the aim of using acoustics to identify – and perhaps measure – this important greenhouse gas in the ocean.

Dust from Africa spreads into the Americas

By in Earth | Human World | 2 weeks ago
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This past weekend, a massive dust cloud from Africa’s Sahara Desert swept across the Atlantic and caused hazy skies across Texas, Mexico and parts of Central America.