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    Five of the six planets are crammed tightly in around the Kepler-11 star, with orbits of between ten and 47 days. The data suggests they're also made mostly of gas. One possible explanation is that the planets started out bigger and further out and were slowly dragged into tighter orbits.

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    Five of the six planets are crammed tightly in around the Kepler-11 star, with orbits of between ten and 47 days. The data suggests they're also made mostly of gas. One possible explanation is that the planets started out bigger and further out and were slowly dragged into tighter orbits.

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    Witn Exoplanets

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    Five of the six planets are crammed tightly in around the Kepler-11 star, with orbits of between ten and 47 days. The data suggests they're also made mostly of gas. One possible explanation is that the planets started out bigger and further out and were slowly dragged into tighter orbits.

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    BBC Learning English

    Words in the News


    4th February 2011
    Six new planets are found

    US scientists studying data from the Kepler space telescope identified six large planets
    orbiting around a Sun-like star about 2,000 light-years away. This new solar system is
    intriguing Nasa scientists. Neil Bowdler reports.

    Finding six new planets around a single star represents an impressive haul. Nasa is calling it
    the best find since the first so-called ‘exoplanet’ was discovered 16 years ago. It might not be
    the most populated solar system yet found - six or possibly seven planets have been found in a
    rival system, but it's the nature of this new discovery which is getting the astronomers
    scratching their heads in wonder.

    Five of the six planets are crammed tightly in around the Kepler-11 star, with orbits of
    between just ten and 47 days. That means they're all super hot, but the data suggests they're
    also made mostly of gas.

    That's strange, because small hot planets this close in should have been ripped asunder by
    their parent star in their formative years, say the scientists. One possible explanation is that
    the planets started out bigger and further out and were slowly dragged into tighter orbits, as
    part of a contracting belt of dust and asteroids.

    Neil Bowdler, BBC News

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2011


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    Vocabulary and definitions

    impressive hugely admirable

    haul large group of items which have been gathered or collected


    at the same time

    so-called commonly named

    exoplanet a planet which is outside the Earth’s solar system (the


    series of planets which goes around our Sun)

    scratching their heads intrigued or puzzled by something

    crammed here, forced together into a small space

    ripped asunder separated violently into two or more parts (used in very
    dramatic circumstances)

    formative years here, a period in a planet’s existence during which it is still


    being shaped into its final form

    dragged pulled violently

    contracting shrinking or pulling inwards

    More on this story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12333766


    Read and listen to the story and the vocabulary online:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/02/110204_witn_exoplanets_page.shtml

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2011


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