英语新闻听写 开普勒太空望远镜退役

According to Geek.com, the Kepler space telescope has been retired¹.

据“Geek.com”报道，开普勒太空望远镜已经退役。

NASA officials retired the telescope on Oct. 30th, after a 9-and-a-half year flight.

历经9年半的飞行后，10月30日，美国国家航空航天局退役了该望远镜。

The Kepler is NASA's first planet-hunter telescope, which discovered thousands of planets during its mission.

开普勒是美国国家航空航天局的第一架行星猎手的望远镜，它在执行任务期间发现了数千颗行星。

But the Kepler recently ran out of fuel, allowing it to drift out of orbit and into the cosmos².

但最近开普勒太空望远镜的燃料耗尽，任由它漂移出轨道、进入茫茫宇宙。 

The Kepler was launched in 2009, with a mission of assessing over one hundred thousand stars in the Cygnus constellation³.

开普勒太空望远镜于2009年发射升空，其任务是对天鹅座中10万多颗的恒星进行观测。

By 2014, the Kepler had surveyed more than 500,000 stars, and had discovered thousands of planets in orbit.

截止2014年，开普勒太空望远镜观测了50多万颗恒星，并在轨道上发现了数千颗行星。

1 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

2 cosmos   

n.宇宙；秩序，和谐

参考例句：

• Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
• Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos?在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗？

3 constellation   

n.星座n.灿烂的一群

参考例句：

• A constellation is a pattern of stars as seen from the earth. 一个星座只是从地球上看到的某些恒星的一种样子。
• The Big Dipper is not by itself a constellation. 北斗七星本身不是一个星座。