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From the Ted Talk by Emily Levesque: A stellar history of modern astronomy

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Now, ___________ couldn't just walk away from the camera once they'd done this. They had to stay with that camera for as long as they were observing. This meant that astronomers would get into _________ attached to the side of the telescope domes. They would ride the elevator high into the building and then _____ into the top of the _________ and stay there all night shivering in the cold, transferring plates in and out of the camera, opening and closing the _______ and pointing the telescope to whatever piece of sky they ______ to study. These astronomers ______ with operators who would stay on the ground. And they would do things like turn the dome itself and make sure the rest of the telescope was running.

Solution

  1. wanted
  2. worked
  3. telescope
  4. astronomers
  5. climb
  6. elevators
  7. shutter

Original Text

Now, astronomers couldn't just walk away from the camera once they'd done this. They had to stay with that camera for as long as they were observing. This meant that astronomers would get into elevators attached to the side of the telescope domes. They would ride the elevator high into the building and then climb into the top of the telescope and stay there all night shivering in the cold, transferring plates in and out of the camera, opening and closing the shutter and pointing the telescope to whatever piece of sky they wanted to study. These astronomers worked with operators who would stay on the ground. And they would do things like turn the dome itself and make sure the rest of the telescope was running.

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Important Words

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