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A True Shooting Star

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007, at 11:34 AM

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NASA released a report yesterday that it has discovered a star that is speeding through space at an incredible 291,000 miles per hour. The report says that this star, named Mira, has a tail that is 30,000 light years long trailing behind. This is the first time a star has ever been observered moving through space. What an awesome universe we live in, full of so many strange and wonderful questions that will never be answered!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/...


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oooh, this is interesting. i've been lucky enough to see two meteor showers so far in life. and lots of shooting stars, one a couple of months ago that seemed to just blaze across the entire night sky. that is really amazing.

-- Posted by weezie84 on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, at 12:07 PM


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