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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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Where would you find Grimaldi, Copernicus and the Sea of Clouds? 你会在哪里找到格里马尔迪、哥白尼和云海? The Sistine Chapel, the Circuit de Monaco, the Orion Nebula or the moon? 西斯廷教堂、摩纳哥赛道、猎户座星云还是

新概念英语第四册Lesson 32 Galileo reborn

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

英文笑话：Problem with gas放屁的问题

A little old lady goes to the doctor ... and says,

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Gas Shortage Intensifies in Mexico

Broadcast: Feb 13, 2003 Demand for electricity is growing in Mexico, but the state-owned oil company, known as Pemex, is reducing the amount of natural gas it can provide for electrical generation. Th

SSS 2008-03-13

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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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

英语博客(A cup of English):013 Do you have gas?

Do you have gas? Beginners. What kind of a question is that? Are you talking about my body or my car? Well, actually, I am talking about your car. Gas, or petrol, as it is called in England, is a big subject at the moment. Driving a car has become re

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

VOA常速英语2008年-Israel to Redistribute Gas Masks Amid Fears of

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 April 2008 Israel is strengthening security on its home front in a sign of war jitters. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel is casting a wary eye toward Iran. Israel's security Cabinet has decide

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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

名篇背诵29:办公室里的垂钓者(理查德.萨蒙)

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