普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修5 Unit 1 Great scientists

Nicolaus Copernicus was frightened and his mind was confused. Although he had tried to ignore them, all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusion: that the earth was not the centre of the solar system. Only if you put the sun there di

国家地理-2008-03-20 Rho Ophiuchi Cloud 璀璨的星云

Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth. The infrared astronomical satellite, now celebra

2006年VOA标准英语-Progress Reported on AIDS, Bird Flu, Malaria, C

By Melinda Smith and Paul Sisco Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch 2006 Science and Medicine Within the next quarter century, AIDS is projected to be among the top three causes of death around the world. That dire prediction comes from researcher

2006年VOA标准英语-US Launches Decade-Long Mission to Pluto

By David McAlary Washington 19 January 2006 The United States has launched the first spacecraft to the distant, icy planet Pluto. The distance from Earth is so great the journey will take nine years f

VOA标准英语2009-European Space Agency Seeks Secrets of Universe

The European Space Agency has launched into orbit, two space observatories that will help scientists understand the information of the universe. A visitor watches an Ariane rocket in an exhibition at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, western Germany, 01

VOA标准英语2011--Hubble's Gaze Extends to Edges of Univer

Hubble's Gaze Extends to Edges of Universe Ever since the days of Galileo and the first optical telescopes more than 400 years ago, astronomers have been looking for ways to cast their gaze farther into the heavens around us. Today, thanks to the ear

英语听力：自然百科 New Search For ET 寻找外星人 上

Ok, imagine you are at the beach, in order to figure out if there are fish in the ocean, you dip an empty glass into the water and look inside. No fish in the glass? Well, there must be no fish in the ocean. Not too logical, is it? But that's exactly

英语听力：自然百科 New Search For ET 寻找外星人（下）

And clearly, we are trying to find evidence of ET, and we are trying to do that by looking for a signal, in whats called the electromagnetic spectrum, which is a fancy way of saying the radio dial, at least for us. Let me turn on my radio here, okay,

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—28

The first stars in our Milky Way were fearsome high-octane stars, burning their hydrogen fuel at tremendous rates, rushing through their life cycle. They like the rockslides. They live fast and die young. They run out of their fuel very quickly and e

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—21

Imagine the disc of our galaxy, if you just took a disc of stars and put it there, gravity would tend to make this disc collapse/ into itself and it would immediately just fall together. That is not what we see with the galaxy. Whats actually going o

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—15

Each tag is whipping around the center of the galaxy, the particular, the most striking thing you will notice is the motion of SO2.So SO2 goes on an incredible roller-coaster ride. It comes whipping around and then back out. Something with tremendous

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—16

The glowing region is the accretion disc, star debris falling inward, would turn round in the maelstrom heated by frictions to such high temperatures that it glows white hot. So at the center of our galaxy, we do have a black hole. We now know that t

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—17

We are traveling upwards away from our solar system, out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way. In front of us, lie vast clusters of stars, satellite groups that orbit the heart of our galaxy. These are globular clusters, over 150 have been discovered.

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—19

One of the puzzles about our galaxy is that we know that it's had stars forming continuously for about the last ten billion years. But at the rate/ it's eating up its gas now, it's forming new stars, it should burn out that gas soon, should run out o

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—9

Like nebulae which spawn stars, it is made of gas and dust. But that's where most similarities end. For Alex Filippenko, it represents an intriguing industrial zone within our galaxy where the elements from which our world is made or manufactured. Wh

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—5

We are taking a ride through the Milky Way. First, we are traveling to a place where stars are born. Even at the speed of light, 196,000 miles a second, the journey lasts for 1,500 years. We've arrived at the vast glowing cloud of gas and dust, the g

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—8

Like nebulae which spawn stars, it is made of gas and dust. But that's where most similarities end. For Alex Filippenko, it represents an intriguing industrial zone within our galaxy where the elements from which our world is made or manufactured. Wh

英语听力：自然百科 已知的宇宙：外星生命 Alien_Contact-2

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 embarassi

英语听力文摘 English Digest 492、塞德娜

Sedna 塞德娜 （本文写于2004年） Pluto is the last of the nine planets, and when its at its farthest point in its elliptical orbit, its the farthest planet from the sun. That's true, but incorrect. Well, what you said about Pluto is true, bu

VOA标准英语2008年-MESSENGER Provides New Data On Planet Mercury

Data from the first flyby of the planet Mercury in January of 2008 by the spacecraft MESSENGER are reported in eleven papers this week in the journal Science. The findings reveal new details about the solar system's smallest planet 77 million kilome