Word: aldebaran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relativistic Implosion. Eventually, as the spacecraft approached the velocity of light, some of the stars ahead of it began to blink out; their light had been shifted into higher, ultraviolet frequencies that are invisible to the human eye. Others, like Betelgeuse and Aldebaran, which look red to observers on earth, actually became brighter: their substantial lower frequency infrared output, normally invisible to the human eye, had been shifted into the visible range...