STEM Challenges

When a star like our Sun runs out of hydrogen in its core, it does not simply die — it transforms dramatically, swelling to hundreds of times its orig...

A star spends the great majority of its life quietly fusing hydrogen in its core. But how long that life lasts, and how brilliantly the star shines, d...

Stars are social — they are born in groups from the same molecular cloud. Explore the two main types of star clusters, their very different ages and p...

A star does not just switch on — it has to earn its glow over millions of years of contraction, heating, and eventually igniting nuclear fusion. Follo...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful objects in the universe — glowing clouds of gas and dust that can mark the birthplaces or the graveyards of sta...

The space between stars is not empty — it is filled with a mix of gas and dust that becomes the raw material for new stars. Explore the interstellar m...