There are a number of reasons why one would find the stars fascinating. However, how much interest is subjective and really depends on the person. Here's my personal reasons why the stars are interesting to me: Everything that exists is the by-product of stars. You see when stars age they fuse into heavier and heavier elements all the way up to iron. Hydrogen, helium, carbon, oxygen, silicon, iron, all are by-products of stellar fusion. So the water you drink (hydrogen + oxygen), the air you breathe (oxygen), the sand upon which you walk (silicon), the metal in your car (iron), and the material you are made of (carbon), is the result of eons of seeding from the death of countless stars. Also, the gold which you adorn yourself with, the uranium used for nuclear power, comes from the collision of two super massive neutron stars the size of a city, where a single teaspoon of matter weighs as much as Mt. Everest. So it's not an exaggeration to say everything is made of the stars i