The Carina Nebula boasts three rare Wolf-Rayets (WR), the hottest stars in the universe. They illuminate and ionize a dark nebula called a Bok globule.

A defunct school bus sized Eurpoean satellite launched in 1995 will crash into the earth’s atmosphere sometime this week - most likely Wednesday morning.

Unusually, Gamma Velorum, a blue star, has been recently renamed. Its new name Regor, "Roger" backwards, honors Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.

It takes a long time to travel across the universe - here’s some long songs to help pass the time

The Cat's Eye nebula is one of the most complex of all planetary nebulae, possibly due to the interaction of a close binary system at its center.

Analyzing cosmic nothing might explain everything - “empty” areas of the universe called voids could solve the cosmos’ greatest mysteries.

Puppis is a rich southern constellation straddlng the Milky Way that was originally part of the ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis until it was divided into three parts in the 18th century