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I Do a Lot of Office Fishing by Richard Salmon Some years ago, I started to look at the stars through high-powered binoculars and began reading books written by astronomers for people like me. I became an entranced stargazer for a while. The men who

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Lesson 32 Galileo reborn 伽利略的复生 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What has modified out traditional view of Galileo in recent times? In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of v

风中尘埃dust in the wind - kansas

I close my eyes only foe a moment and the moment's gone all my dream pass before my eyes curiosity dust in the wind all we are is dust in the wind same old songs just drop of water in an endless sea all we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin in the windthe solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining sola

托福阅读背景材料：反射星云

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经典歌曲-风中尘埃dust in the wind - kansas

经典歌曲-风中尘埃dust in the wind - kansas I close my eyes only foe a moment and the moment's gone all my dream pass before my eyes curiosity dust in the wind all we are is dust in the wind same old songs just drop of water in an endless sea

音乐咖啡厅:Dust In The Wind风中尘埃-Sarah Brightman

空灵的声音，听之仿佛见到月光女神；生灵的氛围，闭眼感到重返伊甸园，莎拉布莱曼就给你这样的感觉，这样的体验！ Artist: Sarah Brightman Song: Dust In The Wind I close my eyes, Only for a moment, And the moment's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes a

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The Aeneid by Virgil 《埃涅阿斯纪》维吉尔 Mark first read the Aeneid while he was studying Latin in high school, and he recountedthe story of Aeneass quest and his desire to build a city that, he said, quoting the text in English, knows no

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—6

Look closer and there is something strange about this gas and dust. There're patches where it appears to glow. These bright glowing clouds are called nebulae. And along with the Orion Nebula, our Milky Way has some spectacular examples, the Eagle Neb

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—7

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

万物简史 第49期:埃文斯牧师的宇宙(13)

The reason we can be reasonably confident that such an event won't happen in our corner of the galaxy, Thorstensen said, is that it takes a particular kind of star to make a supernova in the first place. 索尔斯坦森说，有理由相信，这种事

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The Aeneid by Virgil 《埃涅阿斯纪》维吉尔 Mark first read the Aeneid while he was studying Latin in high school, and he recounted the story of Aeneass quest and his desire to build a city that, he said, quoting the text in English, knows no

China Lands Spacecraft on 'Dark' Side of Moon

Chinas space program has become the first to land a spacecraft on the so-called dark side of the moon. The landing on Thursday brought the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. The China National Space Administration said the landing

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编者按： 我的存在有何意义？我也好，我的民族也好，我的世界也好，我们的存在能起什么作用呢？ 我生命的旅程向何处延伸，这个问题真的重要吗？是谁主宰着整个宇宙，他在想些什么呢？

TED演讲:宇宙有中心吗(2)

Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, 哥白尼死后不久，在十六世纪80年代，意大利修道士焦尔达诺布鲁诺提出， suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the

TED演讲:地球的年龄有多大(1)

How old is the Earth? 地球的年龄有多大？ Well, by counting the number of isotopes in a sample of rock that's undergone radioactive decay, 通过对岩石样品中正经历着放射衰变的同位素计数， geologists have estimated the Ear

太空惊现“上帝之手”

It looks like a hand of God reaching out into the cosmos, but NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar. Taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory from it's orbiting 360 miles above the Earth, the recently released photo of Pulsa

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Now as we pull away from this world -- we're going to keep pulling away from the star now. 现在，我们将视线从这个世界里移出来--我们从这个星球移出来了 One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy