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From the Ted Talk by Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars

Unscramble the Blue Letters

My star, the one in my stroy, became what is known as a magnetar. And just for your information, the magnetic field of a magnetar is 1,000 toirliln times the magnetic field of Earth. The most energetic entves ever measured by arntomroses carry the name gamma-ray bursts because we observe them as bursts most or explosions, most strongly measured as gamma-ray light. Our star, like the one in our story that became a magnetar, is detected as a gamma-ray burst during the most energetic portion of the explosion. Yet, even though gamma-ray btruss are the sotgrnest events ever measured by astronomers, we cannot see them with our naked eye. We depend, we rely on other mdoehts in order to study this gamma-ray light. We cannot see them with our naked eye. We can only see an itty btity, tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call visible lghit. And beyond that, we rely on other methods.

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My star, the one in my _____, became what is known as a magnetar. And just for your information, the magnetic field of a magnetar is 1,000 ________ times the magnetic field of Earth. The most energetic ______ ever measured by ___________ carry the name gamma-ray bursts because we observe them as bursts most or explosions, most strongly measured as gamma-ray light. Our star, like the one in our story that became a magnetar, is detected as a gamma-ray burst during the most energetic portion of the explosion. Yet, even though gamma-ray ______ are the _________ events ever measured by astronomers, we cannot see them with our naked eye. We depend, we rely on other _______ in order to study this gamma-ray light. We cannot see them with our naked eye. We can only see an itty _____, tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call visible _____. And beyond that, we rely on other methods.

Solution

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  2. story
  3. strongest
  4. bursts
  5. events
  6. astronomers
  7. light
  8. trillion
  9. methods

Original Text

My star, the one in my story, became what is known as a magnetar. And just for your information, the magnetic field of a magnetar is 1,000 trillion times the magnetic field of Earth. The most energetic events ever measured by astronomers carry the name gamma-ray bursts because we observe them as bursts most or explosions, most strongly measured as gamma-ray light. Our star, like the one in our story that became a magnetar, is detected as a gamma-ray burst during the most energetic portion of the explosion. Yet, even though gamma-ray bursts are the strongest events ever measured by astronomers, we cannot see them with our naked eye. We depend, we rely on other methods in order to study this gamma-ray light. We cannot see them with our naked eye. We can only see an itty bitty, tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call visible light. And beyond that, we rely on other methods.

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