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Astronomy may be hard science, but there’s always been a whiff of Disney about it too. What else beyond enchantment could explain the ice volcanoes on Neptune’s moon Triton, the helium rain in the atmosphere of Jupiter, the beads of colored glass scattered across the surface of the moon
You’ve probably heard of a shooting star. But a shrinking star? That’s what researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said has happened to the red supergiant star Betelgeuse.
The man at the controls of the space shuttle Discovery when it deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 now appears poised to steer NASA into its post-shuttle orbit. Former astronaut and retired Marine general Charles Bolden Jr. is President Obama’s likely nominee to head the space agency; the two are expected to meet at the White House May 19 for a formal interview.
It looked as if a spaceship had landed on the National Mall on Monday as NASA showed off a mockup of its new Orion crew module. Before the next U.S. astronauts go to the moon — and maybe eventually to Mars — NASA scientists want to make sure they can return safely