What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant ...

America's bird:The bald eagle joins the rose, the bison, and the oak tree as an official American symbol How did the bald eagle become a national symbol? The bald eagle first emerged as a national ...

There’s so much behind-the-scenes, from the intricate process of building the stunning floats for the Rose Parade to the pre-game preparations inside the stadium. Watching everything come to ...

Generations of Americans have seen the bald eagle on the backs of the quarters ... tree (the oak tree), the national floral emblem (the rose), and the national mammal (the bison).

Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula: Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery ...

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Monday making the bald eagle the national bird, so the once-endangered species can now fly alongside other national symbols including the national tree (the ...