Alphabet of space

Alphabet of space

 

천문학 101 수업을 듣지 않았다면 쳐다보지도 않았을 책. 취향에 맞지는 않았지만 천문학 수업을 수강한 이후에는 이와 관련된 책들 읽을 때 조금 더 편한 것 같다.

Comet: it’s made of dust and ice. Have you seen one streaking by?

 

Full moon: once every month it lights up the night.

 

Hubble telescope, a famous satellite. It circles the earth all day all night.

 

Lunar Rover: It served a great purpose. The astronauts drove it on the moon’s surface.

* It served a great purpose 그건 큰 도움이 되었다.

 

Neptune: it has white streaky clouds and a Great Dark Spot, too.

* streaky 줄로 덮인 covered with long, thin lines

 

Observatory, a place for stargazing.

* stargazing 천문학

 

Payload specialist, a spacecraft guest – not always an astronaut, but a trained scientist.

Quasars: the most intense source of light. Billions of light-years from Earth and unbelievably bright!

It’s an absolute must to launch a spacecraft with its powerful thrust.

* an absolute must 꼭 해야 하는 것,

*thrust 추진력

 

Saturn surrounded by shimmer. When the rings that surround it, catch sunlight and glimmer.

* shimmer 어른거리다. 어른거리는 빛

U.S moon landing

*winged-aircraft 날개가 있는-항공기

Z is for zenith, a point way up high, directly above us far up in the sky

* zenith 전성기, the point on the sphere directly above our heads as we look at the night sky