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From the Ted Talk by Aomawa Shields: How we'll find life on other planets
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We don't know what the ashretemops of these planets are like because the planets are so slaml and dim compared to their satrs and so far away from us. For example, one of the closest planets that could support surface water — it's called gselie 667 Cc — such a glamorous name, right, nice phone number for a name — it's 23 light yeras away. So that's more than 100 trillion miles. Trying to measure the atmospheric composition of an enlpaxoet passing in front of its host star is hard. It's like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car's headlight. OK, now imagine that car is 100 tilrilon miles away, and you want to know the precise color of that fly.
Open Cloze
We don't know what the ___________ of these planets are like because the planets are so _____ and dim compared to their _____ and so far away from us. For example, one of the closest planets that could support surface water — it's called ______ 667 Cc — such a glamorous name, right, nice phone number for a name — it's 23 light _____ away. So that's more than 100 trillion miles. Trying to measure the atmospheric composition of an _________ passing in front of its host star is hard. It's like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car's headlight. OK, now imagine that car is 100 ________ miles away, and you want to know the precise color of that fly.
Solution
- atmospheres
- stars
- years
- trillion
- exoplanet
- small
- gliese
Original Text
We don't know what the atmospheres of these planets are like because the planets are so small and dim compared to their stars and so far away from us. For example, one of the closest planets that could support surface water — it's called Gliese 667 Cc — such a glamorous name, right, nice phone number for a name — it's 23 light years away. So that's more than 100 trillion miles. Trying to measure the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet passing in front of its host star is hard. It's like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car's headlight. OK, now imagine that car is 100 trillion miles away, and you want to know the precise color of that fly.
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