Possible Earth-Like Planet Next Door?

Possible Earth-Like Planet Next Door? Scientists say they discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to our planet other than the Sun. It is the closest planet ever found outside our solar system that could support life as we know it.

CNN 2011-09-22

-Lawrence, what a discovery! And I believe I was you who made it. -Yes, I was me and my team. We took a lot of groundbased observing and a lot of modeling, and also it was quite the team that actually made the discovery. I got to lead it, because I'v

CNN 2011-09-19

Hi, laurence, whats a discovery that I believe it was u who made it. Yes, I and my team, we took a lot of ground basic oberserving and a lot of modeling, and also it was quite the team that actually made the discovery. I got to lead it coz I have bee

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

你我和第三次世界大战 【职业特工队】

Throw your arms around me, There's no time to be blue, It's the end of the world, Let's talk deep and meaningful things, It's up to you and down to me What's going on? It's you, me and World War Three

Alien contact

Rob: Hello! Im Rob and this is 6 Minute English. Im joined today byAlice. Hello Alice. Alice: Hi Rob. Rob: Today, were talking about alien life form and who on planet earth wouldaliens speak to if they one day made contact? Alice: Alien life form. Th

VOA慢速英语 2007 1205b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a system of planets orbiting a star called Fifty-Five Cancri. And we hear about a plan to harvest electricity from cro

VOA慢速英语--美国宇航局发现了将近1300颗新行星

AS IT IS 2016-05-12 NASA Discovers Nearly 1,300 New Planets 美国宇航局发现了将近1300颗新行星 NASA the U.S. space agency said it found nearly 1,300 planets outside our solar system. Nine of the planets are orbiting stars at the distance

2017年CRI China' space telescope set to search for black holes, pulsars

China launches its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on June 15, 2017. [Photo: thepaper.cn] China launche

美国有线新闻 CNN NASA在一个恒星系发现7颗类地行星

Yesterday, astronomers announced that theyve discovered seven Earth-sized planets all orbiting the same star. The findings were published in a journal Nature. NASA says this is a record number of these kinds of planets orbiting this kind of star. It

双语：太空垃圾数量已达“临界点”

The amount of debris orbiting the Earth has reached a tipping point for collisions, which would in turn generate more of the debris that threatens astronauts and satellites, according to a US study released on Thursday。 NASA needs a new strategic p

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

神舟6号飞天相关雅思词汇(10)

Galaxy 银河美国电视中继卫星 Galileo 伽利略美国木星探测器 Gals 航向前苏联国内军政通信卫星 Gambit 策略美国照相侦察卫星 Gamma 伽玛前苏联伽玛射线天文卫星

研究:1/4类日恒星拥有类地卫星

Researchers who studied stars similar to the Sun found that almost one in four could have small, rocky planets just like the Earth。 For their research, scientists spent five years studying 166 Sun-like stars within 80 light year or 470 trillion mil

TED演讲:在外太空自由落体

Have you ever been floating in a swimming pool, all comfy and warm, 你是否曾经浮在游泳池里，感觉非常惬意，暖洋洋得， thinking, Man, it'd be cool to be an astronaut! 想着，天啦，当一名宇航员太爽了！ You could fl

Researchers discover first planet orbiting two stars

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers has discovered a planet that orbits around a pair of stars, the U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. This is the first instance of astronomers finding direct evidence of a so-called circumb

外媒：杨利伟外太空听到诡异敲击声 细思恐极

China's first astronaut says he heard mysterious knocks during his first flight in space - but no one has been able to explain the cause of them. 中国第一名宇航员称其第一次宇宙飞行时听到神秘的敲击声，但没有人能解释原因

VOA标准英语2010年-Five New Planets Discovered by NASA's

Artist's conception of the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2008 to identify planets orbiting distant stars Related Links Kepler The planets we found are all hotter than molten lava. ... Looking at them might be like looking at a blast furnace. Scienti

China sets up management body for orbiting space lab

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China has established an operation committee for management of the country's first space lab module, Tiangong-1, during its two-year orbit of earth. The committee will deal with operations planning, technical appraisal an

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