WAUNAKEE - Mary Kathryn “Katie” (nee Hable) Acker, age 71 of Waunakee, passed away peacefully from ovarian cancer surrounded by her family on Saturday, February 22, 2025. She was born on ...

Best of all, you don't even need a telescope or any special equipment to see our solar system in its full glory. This rare alignment won't happen again until 2040 - so you don't want to miss it.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February 2025 ...

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A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science. The scientists behind NASA's largest and most powerful ...

The telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) tracked the black hole for a total of 48 hours over the course of a year, observing five to six large flares per day with smaller sub-flares in between.

Several flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares, but on a more energetic scale, are seen in the disk. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected both bright flares and fainter flickers coming ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...