时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2010年


英语课

 Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture?


 
But for the longest time ,the question was  taboo to science .
 
Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassing to even address the question, because looking for alien life seems a little frighteningly close to science fiction .
 
For decades ,the farthest we got in looking for aliens was imagining them on the silver screen .(What is your name?) After all , alien life needs a hull 1, and we havn't even find a planet outside our own solar system .
 
Scientists in fact never talked about planets around other stars. There is no way to detect them. And so it was one of those domains 2 of science that you couldn't answer and therefore you didn't talk about it.
 
Then in 1995, astronomers 3 discovered a planet orbiting a star 50 light-years from earth. And since then they found hundreds more .
 
For the first time, in human history ,we realized that our sun with its 8 major planets that go around it, is just one type of a planetary system ,one example of billlions.
 
These discoveries are exciting ,but don't expect to dial up ET on these planets anytime soon .
 
Well ,it's been a spectacular ride in the last decade to find these planets ,most of them are giant planets.
 
Most of the worlds we found are gas giants which probably couldn't support life .
 
You can't stand on pneumas ,no hard surface,they are large balls of hydrogen and helium gas like Jupiter and Saturn 4 .
 
We have found a few rocky planets with hard surfaces ,but they are many times more massive than earth ,and contain the most hostile environments you could ever imagine. One such planet, CoRoT-7b,orbits so close to its star that / surface temperatures reach as high as 3000 degrees .Sunlights here does not bring the sound of birds' song ,instead it's an Armageddon of volcanic 5 explosions .

n.船身;(果、实等的)外壳;vt.去(谷物等)壳
  • The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
  • The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。
n.范围( domain的名词复数 );领域;版图;地产
  • The theory of thermodynamics links the macroscopic and submicroscopic domains. 热力学把宏观世界同亚微观世界联系起来。 来自辞典例句
  • All three flow domains are indicated by shading. 所有三个流动区域都是用阴影部分表示的。 来自辞典例句
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • 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》
n.农神,土星
  • 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。
  • These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们,土星由较轻的物质构成。
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
学英语单词
a'cockbill
A.F.C
active sleep
alveololabial groove
assinuate
balloonry
beagled
bitter almond camphor
BLUS resifual vector
carpetbagging
case bay part
Chelidonium majus
clean cutting
Colbeckite
Confederate flag
copped tanke
crude test
cruzen i.
depressure tank
Dianthus sinensis L.
directional intermolecular force
down-faulting
duosecant
duration units
earn a good reputation
ex-dividend stock
fatuousnesses
ferryer
floorspace
foreign-exchange dealer
future commission merchant
galvanometer
Gangean
genus Uma
gone poof
half-neighbo(u)rhood
harbor craft
hawse-pipe
heat-resistant coating
helitankers
hoarhead
hyperinsulinemic obesity
instruction-based architecture
intussusceptive growth
lacinia falcata
ladening
leariest
limiter amplifier
lyeth
marchment
merry-go-round machine
microsaccades
microwave acoustics
mildew-retarding agent
missionise
Mitha Singh
molecular heat conduction
morality of law
mystinus
neocerebellar agenesis
no-load field voltage
nuclear power generation
oonin
pentastomiasis
photoerythema
pick-and-mix
pinch for
plywood ceiling
poison parsley
polynomial hazard function models
pop hole
Population-weighted
postflood
practicing
prognathometer
ricers
rippling edit
rober'
s's
Santorini's caruncula major
senior reactor operator
separating yarn
shock incarceration
shunting yard
slaw
small-denomination
starting air distributor
symploce furcata
tape speed
taxloss
Tellerette packing
temporary import
time per piece
to put to use
treib
unlabeled statement
vaginal hysterotomy
valvulae fossae navicularis
vertical photograph
wet process of parting
white gum
X-ray Luminosity of cluster of galaxies