Of course it is! (Unless it's declared INTEGER.*)
W.T.Bridgman has a blog, "Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy" where he addresses the violence Creationists commit upon astronomy in support of their religion.
In one post, he addresses the question of whether astronomy is science.
Astronomy is predominantly an observational science. We only know about objects when some effect from them arrives at the Earth (or near the Earth and detected by satellites). I've had some creationists claim that this makes astronomical knowledge 'unprovable' and therefore not worth considering as 'real' science.
He gives a good explanation of how science arrives at its conclusions, and how astronomy qualifies. He gives as examples the solar neutrino question and Einstein's general theory of relativity.
It's worth reading the whole thing.
* It's not every day I get to pun in Fortran.
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