2-14-A Passage 1: To start with, rainwater is collected in a large 3,000 gallon tank on the highest point of land on the island. The tank is so large that it measures about 12 feet in diameter. Once the tank is filled with rainwater, fish are added t

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If it points the camera forward, at first it sees only black. But as it moves toward the heart of the black hole, it encounters the most bizarre place in the universe. A black hole in massive gravity holds everything down to an unimaginably small poi

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Hubble's Dazzling Mission Nears Its End 哈勃太空望远镜使命渐入尾声 The Hubble Space Telescope has changed the way we see the universe. For almost a quarter of a century, it has sent vast amounts of data and images from space. A new exhib

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a great deal about 许多关于 astronaut 宇航员 atmosphere 大气层 billion 10亿 by the time 到时 distant 遥远的 eagle eye 鹰眼 Endeavour 奋进 号 faulty 有错误的 galaxy 星系 grab 抓 Hubble 哈勃 launch 发射 robot-arm 机器手

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美国航天局倾力寻找生命之星 For decades, looking for life elsewhere in the universe meant listening for signals that could be from distant civilizations. But recent breakthroughs in space technology refocused some of that effort toward fi

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The number of people looking for work across the Eurozone has hit an all-time high. November figures put the unemployment rate at 11.8 per cent. Spain recorded the highest rate at 26.6 per cent. Greece has the second highest at 20 per cent. More than

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Smartphones' battery down to 10 percent. Time to turn down the brightness on the screen. Right? It's a classic strategy to squeeze more juice from the battery and it works. But that trick might be less effective than you think, cause it turns out nea

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By Parke Brewer Washington 10 August 2007 English star David Beckham made his Major League Soccer debut Thursday night here in Washington, but his Los Angeles Galaxy club lost to DC United, 1-0. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer was at the match at RFK

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This is probably your smart phone or that one, or maybe this one. The point is, statistically speaking, it's likely to be a Samsung. The tech-giant catapulted to the top spawn in terms of global smart phone shipment last year. And its trajectory rema

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Artist:Owl City Song:Strawberry Avalanche This is a world of dreams and reverie Where I felt the stars explode around me. A grasp light flashed with a gleam as it slashed open a moon beam And I stared back breathlessly as mountains of fruit tumbled o

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International Performers Flock to Texas Music Festival Playing on Austin's club-lined Sixth Street, the British folk group Skinny Lister charms the crowd. It cost them a lot of money to come here two years in a row but group guitarist Daniel says it

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In 2016 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, made the first accepted detection of gravitational waves. So any time you move a mass it produces a gravitational waveso black holes, like the ones LIGO detected, these are stella

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Measuring the brightnesses and colors of the stars in the globular cluster, we can figure out how old they are. Here is the remarkable thing: they are very old. Globular clusters, at least the stars in the globular clusters, in many cases, are almost

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It's really a wonderful time to be an astronomer, especially in studies of Milk Way. Were undergoing something for revolution. In fact, we can take you places. They're really quite remarkable. We are about to embark on an amazing journey. We'll take

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Now, of course, I can't show you a picture of the galaxy on our screen. We can't fly above the galaxy and take a picture of it, and show you. We're stuck in the disc of the galaxy, but we can still image it from the ground, in fact, this image is a p

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By comparing the detailed images, Hubble has taken another spiral galaxy. With the best images of our own taken from the ground, and by using satellites to measure the distance and density of stars in different directions, astronomers have been able

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This is a picture of the Orion Nebula in visible light. We can see all of the gas here located in front of what we know are stars in the background, and we want to be able to look inside this nebula/ and see the stars. In infrared light in this image

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Thank you.Everybody, please have a seat. 谢谢你们。大家请就坐。 Have a seat. Well, welcome to the White House, everybody. 请就坐。好吧,欢迎来到白宫,欢迎你们。 And congratulations to the L.A. Galaxy on your third MLS Cup. N

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 05 September 2007 South Korea is hosting a tournament of the world's best teenage football teams. The Under 17 World Cup is a chance for global sports fans to catch a glimpse of the Beckhams and Ronaldos of the future in a make-or

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Steve: So do you go by Andrew, or is Andy OK? Andy: Ah, Andy please. Steve: Can you tell us about the work you do with your website? Andy: Sure. I've made a website for people to study English using movie trailers. (OK) Movie commercials. (OK) On the

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