Have We Found the First Moon outside the Solar System?

Scientists say they may have found the first moon outside our solar system. Many planets are known to exist beyond our solar system. But there has been no confirmation of a moon on the outside. The possible moon appears considerably larger than Earth

CNN 2011-12-10

CNN News from here Atlanta, Georgia straight to your classrooms, Im Carl Azuz, this is CNN Student News. Today were starting something called a payroll tax. Heres the deal on the payroll tax from A to Z. Americans have been getting a break on their f

SSS 2011-09-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. The telescope's job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightlybecause of the presence of an

SSS 2009-02-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Were on the verge of finding out how frequently habitable planets occur in the universe. That was astronomer Alan Boss at the AAAS meeting on February 14th. And I thin

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The advantage of this transit method is that it is well-suited to mass production. 这种中天方法的优势在于非常适合大量成果产出。 Kepler was designed to stare fixedly at a single patch of sky in the constellation of Cygnus, observ

经济学人: 开普勒 R.I.P (1)

It used to be that finding even one new planet was enough to make an astronomer's career. 曾经即便是找到一颗新卫星都足以成就一名天文学家的事业。 Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, who these days has, among o

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (3)

That would give them a better sense of just how massive it is. 这将让他们更好的感知这个物体有多么的巨大。 There maybe more to come. The two researchers think they have found a second promising target lurking in Kepler's data. 或许

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WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

新西兰英语 800 A telescope in a plane

An unusual Boeing 747 arrived in Christchurch at the weekend from California. It has a telescope on board. The plane will spend the next three weeks flying the skies of the South Island to study the Milky Way. It is called SOFIA, Stratospheric Observ

科学家发现8个或有生命存在的行星

Eight new planets have been discovered in the 'Goldilocks' zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where oceans and life could exist. 科学家已经发现了8个新的可能有海洋和生命的行星。它们位于这些行星的恒星的适居带

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Scientists Optimistic About New Diabetes Treatment 科学家对新型糖尿病治疗感到乐观 From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. 这里是美国之声科学报道。 我是Kelly Jean kelly。 And Im Avi Ar

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Nine Years In Orbit, Kepler Telescope Leaves A Legacy Of Discovery

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is Lulu's log, stardate November 4, 2018, where we consider matters of space, the stars and the universe. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: When looking up at the stars, it's hard not to wonder what else or even who

VOA常速英语2013--开普勒望远镜危在旦夕

Kepler Telescope's Planet-hunting Days End 开普勒望远镜危在旦夕 NASA is ending its attempts to restore the Kepler Space Telescope to full working order. The US space agency will now focus on analyzing the data collected over the past four y

美国变焦"隐形眼镜"华丽登场

Implantable 'eye telescope' that magnifies vision by three times approved for use in patients可以三倍变焦的眼中望远镜已被批准医用。 A miniature telescope that is implanted in the eye to solve sight problems has been approved for us

Russia's Mission Control raises ISS by 10.2 km

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

NASA发现“另一个地球”

Today we're announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that as far as we can tell is a pretty good close cousin to the earth and our sun An historic moment in NASA's epic pursuit of earth-like planets, as the newly discovered Kepler-452b was officially

经济学人214:另一个地球?

Science and technology 科学技术 Another Earth? 另一个地球？ Home away from home 远离家乡的家 ONE of the more memorable slogans to come out of the climate-change talks in Durban over the past few days is: 在过去几天的Durban气候变

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美国太空总署（NASA）于今日凌晨零时宣布发现首颗太阳系外位于宜居带上体积最接近地球大小的行星（代号为开普勒-452b），这是人类在寻找太阳系外第二地球道路上的重要里程碑。 请看外媒

2016年CRI World's largest radio telescope completes installation

The construction of the project was started in 2011 with an investment of 1.2-billion yuan, or about 180 million US dollars. The 500 metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields. It's located in a hollow that was for

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