Grandfathers eyebrows raised in surprise as he watched his grandchildren and Rachel Cunningham climb onto the stage. They stood beside the podium. I hope this interruption is important, James Alden said. Its about Marks paper, Henry said. Mark sat up

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By David McAlary Washington 28 February 2007 A U.S. spacecraft has taken the closest images of Jupiter since the Galileo probe perished in a programmed dive into the huge planet's atmosphere four years ago. The spacecraft's destination is icy, dista

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EXPLORATIONS - Edwin Hubble Changed Our Ideas About the Universe and Its Birth EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He changed our

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Venus Transits Sun for Last Time This Century JUNE SIMMS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about the planet Venus and what the American

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Winking Star Six Centuries Ago Explained 揭秘600年前那颗一闪即逝的恒星 On March 11, 1437, Korean royal astronomers noticed something out of the ordinary in the night sky. There was a brand new star they'd never seen before, between two o

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Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses 公益!回收利用日食观测镜 Youve all taken off your glasses by now, along with the family and friends of my friend Dennis Meredith. Because the Great American Eclipse of 2017 has come and gone. And most people i

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Solar Eclipse in 1097 May Be Rock Carving Subject 古代雕刻记载天文景观 More than 900 years ago, the Pueblo people were thriving in New Mexicos Chaco Canyon. While they were there, the region experienced what the whole country is looking for

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Why Dwarf Galaxies Lack Star Power In a study in the journal Nature, researchers show that the relative lack of star density in dwarf galaxies need not conflict with standard cosmological models if you include the blast effects of supernovae. Karen H

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Sky Watchers Prepare For the 'Super Bowl' of Moons This is What's Trending Today. 这里是《今日热点》节目。 The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week. 本周,月亮将为人们演绎一次罕见的三部曲。 On Wednesday, muc

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By David McAlary Washington 11 April 2006 A European spacecraft has arrived at Venus to study Earth's hot, hazy sister planet. It is only the latest of many space probes trying to understand why our c

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By Patricia Nunan in Kantale, Sri Lanka 24 August 2006 As many as 170,000 people in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced in recent weeks by fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces. VOA's Patricia Nunan recently me

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By Jessica Berman Washington 04 October 2007 Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into Earth's orbit, called Sputnik , which began a space race with the United States. While the intense co

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today, scientists announced a big discovery around a star in the constellation Aquarius - seven planets about the size of Earth. And as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, they're most likely rocky planets that could be cozy enou

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Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. 外星人和天外来客长期以来一直是好莱坞

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The Five-hundred-meter wide Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is now operational in the mountains of Guizhou in southwest China. FAST has been designed to help Chinese researchers better understand our universe, as well as probe the cosmos for e

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Christopher itagliata. Got a minute? How heavy is the Milky Way in comparison to its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda? Well, depends how you calculate it. In 2006 one group of astronomers figured the Mil

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How heavy is the Milky Way in comparison to its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda? Well, depends how you calculate it. In 2006 one group of astronomers figured the Milky Way was twice as massive as Andromeda. A 2009 estimate evened the score, calculating th

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How heavy is the Milky Way in comparison to its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda? Well, depends how you calculate it. In 2006 one group of astronomers figured the Milky Way was twice as massive as Andromeda. A 2009 estimate evened the score, calculating th

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(Probably Not a) Giant Alien Antenna强大的外星人光束 The Earth is studded with telescopes, listening for electromagnetic radiation from the great beyond. And a decade ago, astronomers stumbled upon a mysterious signal: a powerful pulse of rad

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By Michael Bowman Washington 12 June 2008 The U.S. space agency is planning to send a probe to the sun to gather data and shed light on basic questions about how the star operates and its effects on Earth. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washingto

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