课时作业15 Space Exploration-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（人教版）

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3+ 课时作业 15　 SPACE EXPLORATION Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2023·湖南省长沙市一模) A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a large and magnificently brilliant star that shone across the young expanding universe. The light from that blue star travelled through space for billions of years, and then one day a few thin beams crashed into a polished mirror—the light bucket of the Hubble Space Telescope. In a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of astronomers asserts that this is the most distant individual star ever seen. They describe it as 50 to 100 times more massive than our sun, and roughly 1 million times brighter, with its starlight having travelled 12. 9 billion years to reach the telescope. The lead author on the report, Brian Welch, gave the star a name: Earendel, meaning “morning stars” . “Earendel was found in a young galaxy known as the Sunrise Arc, and ‘morning stars’ seemed appropriate,” Welch said. “This is one of the major discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope in its 32 years of observation, ” said Rogier Windhorst, a co-author of the report. In recent decades, astronomers have seen galaxies at that distance, and even farther away, but galaxies are collections of billions of stars and the very distant ones have typically been nothing more than smudges of light. Despite its mass and brilliance, Earendel􀆳s discovery would not have been possible were it not for the cosmic alignment. Between Hubble and the star lies a galaxy cluster, WHL0137-08,which is so huge tha