Where does the Sun end and the Solar System begin? The answer is not clear-cut. The Sun’s atmosphere – the corona – extends far into space, and its processes shape the solar wind that streams in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument on NASA's four new PUNCH spacecraft took images through ...

Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

Astronomers capture Eta Carinae’s rainbow spectrum, offering new insights into massive star evolution and extreme cosmic phenomena.

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light ...

The glorious guts of a dying star are the means by which astronomers are hoping to discover the very earliest origins of how our planet was born. In the midst of the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, located ...

A splash of cosmic color has come to downtown Petaluma. With bold waves of blue, purple, red, orange, green and more, local artist Ricky Watts is transforming the southern wall of the Phoenix Theater ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...