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Binary star systems – Astronomers taking part in the human journey to the beginning of space and time have found star systems the human mind never imagined out among the stars. In fact, they have found that star systems with multiple stars are more common than star systems with a single star, like our own solar system. Star systems with multiple stars of varying sizes have also been viewed during the human journ...

Visitors from the stars have often been the main characters in myths, legends, comic book adventures and books and movies created by humans throughout the ages of mankind. Considering the diminutive knowledge humans have of space and time this choice provides the perfect context for adventure and the unknown. The Green Lantern is one of the most popular and beloved DC Comics heroes of all time and more recently a full length feature...

The results of NASA's 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race and American schools were once again beaten by racers from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao and Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School Team II of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico for the second straight year. The closest American team was the team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who finished second in the college division competition, while a number of American teams placed third in the competitions.

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Women like Andrea Meyer are part of a new breed of women taking their place in the annals of space history and the human journey to the beginning of space and time. A breed of tough minded, can't-keep-me-down individuals use to people telling they have no chance of success, women like Andrea are big believers in the saying everything happens for a reason. This tough minded lady survived a plane crash years ago that sent her down the path to becoming the program analyst in the Office of the Ch...

A career in the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration opens doors to a world of exploration and discovery more and more people from around the world are deciding to enter every year. Women and men around all corners of the globe come to NASA to join in the exploration of the universe and the world around us and try to delve deeper than their predecessors into the mysteries surrounding us.

This series of articles is on the women of NASA, their journey from an inspired young w...

Astronomy for Kids

Question Period

What's the ultimate fate of our sun? How will the sun end its days?

The ultimate fate of our sun, like all of the stars in the Milky Way, is tied to its life cycle. The two main processes astronomers theorize in the life cycle of our sun as being mainly responsible for the ultimate fate of our sun being the fusion of lighter elements into heavier elements and the loss of the sun's mass in a second process that begins after the first is completed.

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September is one of the year's most entertaining and awe-inspiring months to lay on your back on a dark hill and view the delights of the celestial dance in the sky above you as your ancestors once did on a nightly basis. Four of Sol's dance partners will be in the spotlight in September, 2010, taking part in a nightly dance that includes their less observable brothers and sisters, while Mercury will once again dance privately in the eastern sky each morning during September.

Focus your time machine to the stars on the features along the Moon's limb during the month of September. This is a rare chance to view a few limb sections of the Moon that star gazers have dreamed of taking a closer look at for generations, during a single month of the year. Astronauts didn't report any green cheese, so our ancestors can rest safely, a...