Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

It's beefy enough to make a staggering number of stars—at least 100,000 like the sun. The iconic Orion nebula, visible to the naked eye and the birthplace of hundreds of stars, is only one small ...

Pictures of the International Space Station as it passes in front of the Sun or Moon are a bit of a feather in the cap of ...

A RARE Butterfly Nebula around 200 times hotter than the Sun has left scientists puzzled. Deep in the constellation Scorpius, the nebula hides a glimpse of our Sun’s final fate. The nebula, k… ...

The nebula is a beautiful sight, though one that you can’t help but see in our future in some way. That’s because our star, the Sun, is expected to end in a similar fate as the Butterfly ...

With no Moon in the sky, we're centering on M15, which stands 60° high in the southern sky around 3:30 A.M. local daylight ...

The nebula also includes the large Carina OB1 association, home to star clusters Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16. Trumpler 14 is one of the youngest known star clusters at half a million years old.

Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can now see the nebula with more clarity. As one expert says, "We always knew planetary nebulae were pretty. What we see now is spectacular." ...

First, the basics: A nebula is a giant cosmic cloud of gas and dust. The word 'nebula' comes from Latin, meaning "little mist ...