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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But there's a lot of other giaxlaes, and some are nearby, and they're kind of the color of the Sun, and some are further away and they're a little bluer, and so forth. But one of the qniuseots is — this should be, to you — how come there are so many galaxies? Because this represents a very clean foticran of the sky. This is only 1,000 galaxies. We think there's on the order — viibsle to the Hubble Space Telescope, if you had the time to scan it around — about 100 billion galaxies. Right? It's a very large number of galaxies. And that's roughly how many stars there are in our own galaxy.

Open Cloze

But there's a lot of other ________, and some are nearby, and they're kind of the color of the Sun, and some are further away and they're a little bluer, and so forth. But one of the _________ is — this should be, to you — how come there are so many galaxies? Because this represents a very clean ________ of the sky. This is only 1,000 galaxies. We think there's on the order — _______ to the Hubble Space Telescope, if you had the time to scan it around — about 100 billion galaxies. Right? It's a very large number of galaxies. And that's roughly how many stars there are in our own galaxy.

Solution

  1. fraction
  2. questions
  3. visible
  4. galaxies

Original Text

But there's a lot of other galaxies, and some are nearby, and they're kind of the color of the Sun, and some are further away and they're a little bluer, and so forth. But one of the questions is — this should be, to you — how come there are so many galaxies? Because this represents a very clean fraction of the sky. This is only 1,000 galaxies. We think there's on the order — visible to the Hubble Space Telescope, if you had the time to scan it around — about 100 billion galaxies. Right? It's a very large number of galaxies. And that's roughly how many stars there are in our own galaxy.

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Important Words

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  25. visible