Your personal connection to the cosmos （每日一篇・聆聽）

日期：2025.4.23

節錄自：Are we alone in the universe? We're close to finding out, Lisa Kaltenegger

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今天跟大家一起上太空～這個算是很科學的話題，但講者用了很直白的語言，應該不會把大家難倒的，大家一齊來聽聽～（明天還有續集）

指引：先按以上的連結指定的錄音內容，今天我們會聆聽0分0秒至1分46秒～做聆聽練習的時候，不要開字幕，邊看下面的文字，一邊在紙上寫上答案，看看內容播完後自己答對了多少題。有需要的話可以調慢錄音的語速或多聽幾次～

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We live in an incredible time of (1)________, on the verge of finding out whether we are alone in the cosmos or not. This is one of the biggest questions (2)________ has ever asked. And now, for the first time, we have a tool that could find out. Because the James Webb (3)________ is a telescope large enough to be able to catch light from planets like ours, as small as ours, but circling other stars light-years away. Because this search is a search over vast cosmic distances, even light needs years to travel these (4)________ between stars. So when you look up at the sky at night, you (5)________.

Let's imagine you were on a planet circling our neighboring star, about four light-years away. Then you would see the Earth tonight, like it was (6)________ ago. On a planet 70 million light-years away, you could still see the (7)________ roam here. And it also means that out in the sky, there is a star whose light arrives tonight that was sent out when you were born. Your personal connection to the (8)________.

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答案

1. exploration
2. humankind
3. Space Telescope
4. trillions of miles
5. look back in time
6. four years
7. dinosaurs
8. cosmos

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