SSS 2008-09-11
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(九)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute.
A year ago astronomers 1 sent out an invitation. A robotic telescope called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey had produced almost a million images. Researchers wanted more than extra computer power to sort through them. So they welcomed citizen scientists to, well, look at the photos. Few people ever get the chance to peer at the universe from the world’s top observatories 2. So 150,000 amateur astronomers jumped at the chance to explore undiscovered galaxies 3. The project is called Galaxy 4 Zoo. A story on the success of the project was published in the September issue of Physics World.
Participants were first invited to go online in their spare time to characterize the shape of galaxies and the direction of the rotation 5. And the amateur astronomers out there RSVP’d with 50 million responses so far. For about a third of the galaxies on-line, there’s close to an 80 percent agreement in characterizations. Scientists say this gives them a good starting point for research. And that having 150,000 collaborators is strong motivation to get that data published.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .
- Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
- Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网
- Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
- We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。
- The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
- The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。