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.

Antarctic Milky Way selfie

By Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 20 hours ago

By Eleanor Imster

Jorgelina Alvarez of AstroLina Photography took this selfie at the Marambio Research Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.

See it! Moon sweeps past Venus

By Eleanor Imster in Space | Today's Image | 2 days ago

By Eleanor Imster

Wonderful photos from the EarthSky community of the moon’s sweep this week past the brightest planet, Venus.

March 2018 in top 6 warmest on record

By Eleanor Imster in Earth | 3 days ago

By Eleanor Imster

Last month wasn’t as hot as March 2016 or March 2017, but it’s in the warmest 6 since modern record-keeping began in 1880.

April snow in Georgia

By Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 3 days ago

By Eleanor Imster

Scott Kuhn captured this image after a rare April snow in northern Georgia.

Watch launch of TESS planet-hunting mission April 16

By Eleanor Imster in Human World | Space | 6 days ago

By Eleanor Imster

TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Lift-off is planned for no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT (10:32 p.m. UTC).

Tour the moon in 4K

By Eleanor Imster in Space | 1 week ago

By Eleanor Imster

Take a virtual tour of the moon in all-new 4K resolution – Ultra High Def – created from data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.