Aug 18 - Top Stories This Week

August 18 Top Stories This Week by:

The unique elephant brain Unique brain structures - different from those of any other mammal - are responsible for elephants' special abilities in learning and memory. Favorite Perseid meteor shower photos Thanks, everyone, for submitting your photos! Wow! Zoom to the Milky Way's center Click in for a video showing stars orbiting the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at our galaxy's core. Astronomers find weird rogue world with wild auroras This free-floating rogue planet - untethered to any star - has auroras much more brilliant than Earth’s northern lights. Bam! Meteorite bombardment created Earth's oldest rocks Study says how a barrage of incoming space debris likely formed Earth’s oldest rocks. We promise you won’t be eaten by a megalodon Enjoy "The Meg" without worry. Scientists have debunked the myth that megalodon sharks still exist. Carbon monoxide from California wildfires drifts east What happens in California doesn’t stay in California. Next few evenings … Moon, Antares, Saturn Follow the moon's trek across our sky - Saturday through Monday evenings - to identify Antares, brightest star in Scorpius the Scorpion, and the ringed planet Saturn.

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Here are 7 of Saturn's moons Saturn has 62 moons with confirmed orbits, 53 of which have names and only 13 of which have diameters larger than about 30 miles (50 km). Here are 7 of them, captured by Tom Wildoner of The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Next few evenings … Moon, Antares, Saturn Supergiant Antares shines red in our sky, and the planet Saturn - glorious ringed world - shines golden. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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