Lesson 55 astronomy 天文学 Recent developments in astronomy 天文学的最新发展使我们 may have made it possible to detects in our own Milky Way and in other galaxies. 能够在银河系和其他星系发现行星。 The objective of astron

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science, I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Remember the good old days when we understood our solar system? Then we found out Pluto wasn't a planet. And now a new study puts comets in question. The data come from

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How did all the planets get there? How is it only our planet has life? Will we ever travel to other planets? These are questions I often think about. I think our planet is the best. It looks so beautiful from space with its mixture of blue and green.

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I think snakes are very interesting. They have a very strange effect on people. Some people are fascinated by them, but others are terrified of them. I love looking at them. They really are fantastic creatures. Its almost as if they come from another

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Citizen astronomy 全民天文学 A new world in your bedroom 卧室里的新天地 Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters 业余天文学家加入猎星人行列 IN AN age of professionals, the ability

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In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. He wanted to call it George, after the British monarch, but was overruled. Instead it became Uranus. 1781年,赫歇尔成为现代行星发现者的先驱。他曾想把

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What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, w

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Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in itthe Sun, the planets and their m

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Tombaugh had no formal training as an astronomer, but he was diligent and he was astute, and after a year's patient searching he somehow spotted Pluto, a faint point of light in a glittery firmament. 汤博没有受过成为天文学家的专门训练,

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2.WELCOME TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM 2.欢迎来到太阳系 Astronomers these days can do the most amazing things. If someone struck a match on the Moon, they could spot the flare. From the tiniest throbs and wobbles of distant stars they can infer the siz

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. 我们只是一个很普通的星系中一个不重要的小星球上高等物种的猴子罢了

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Then there was the tipping point It paid me $100 a month more than I was currently making. 然后是直接让我心动的他愿意在我现在的酬劳上 一个月多给我100美元 I'll make it So I made the leap, but with a conscious commitment to

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Science and technology 科学技术 Investigating the asteroids 小行星探测 Dawn's early light 黎明号初试锋芒 A mission to the asteroid belt will visit leftovers from the solar system's formation 小行星带探测任务将造访太阳系形

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Any visitors to Earth from afar would almost certainly, at the very least, be bemused to find us living in an atmosphere composed of nitrogen, 任何光临地球的远方客人几乎肯定都会觉得好笑,发现我们生活在一种由氮和氧组成

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We have managed once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, 我们只有一次用坚固的潜水器成功地把人送到了那个深度,而且就一会儿,而那里却是端足目动

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Collapsed lungs were a routine hazard. 肺部坍缩是常有的危险, Perforated eardrums were quite common, but, as Haldane reassuringly noted in one of his essays, the drum generally heals up; 鼓膜穿孔也是家常便饭,但霍尔丹在一篇

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Throughout his youth, the young Haldane helped his father with experiments. 在整个年轻时代,小霍尔丹一直是他父亲做实验的帮手。 By the time he was a teenager, the two often tested gases and gas masks together, taking turns to

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His idea of a vacation was to travel to Cornwall to study hookworm in miners. 去康沃尔研究矿工们的钩虫病算是他的假日。 Aldous Huxley, the novelist grandson of T. H. Huxley, who lived with the Haldanes for a time, T.H.赫胥黎的孙

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Science and technology. 科技。 Mining asteroids. 小行星采矿。 Going platinum. 小行星采矿淘铂去。 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂,但行得通吗? CAN rea

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