NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

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When it happens to the Sun, its mantle will be flung outward to form a planetary nebula, while its core will linger on as a white dwarf. Named because their color and size made them resemble ...

It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

Here are 7 beautiful nebula images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope such as Veil Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, Hubble ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar nebula is mainly driven by temperature and density variation, but there are many other factors that contributed as well, such as planet ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert Wich Titusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable ...