As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera from multiple angles. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. In this visible-light image, the comet’s nucleus is hidden in the center of a fuzzy […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]cross Alaska and a sliver of western Canada, 280 seismic stations silently do their jobs. Hidden in dark holes drilled into rock in boreal forest, northern tundra and mountaintops, the instruments wait patiently for the next tremor. The EarthScope Transportable Array of seismic monitors is now embedded across Alaska and Canada, adding 196 new stations […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]wo Anchorage suspects that crashed into and assaulted a victim on Minnesota Drive and Spenard Road were taken into custody after patrol officers were alerted to be on the lookout for their suspect vehicle, APD reports. Patrol officers responded to the location after receiving the report of a two-vehicle car crash and assault and opened […]
Alaska State Troopers report that an Emmonak man was arrested on assault charges after an incident in the middle of Kwiguk Street on Wednesday morning. AST opened an investigation into 23-year-old Wyatt Redfox after receiving a report that Redfox had, while on Kwiguk Street, strangled his girlfriend. Redfox was taken into custody on Assault II […]