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Reading Space News in English: JWST and the 'Little Red Dots'
Related terms: 英語 長文読解 語彙 科学英語 redshift galaxy telescope
Key points (reviewing AI explanation)
English used in science news may look difficult, but it is actually well suited to English learning because 'the same words appear repeatedly.' This time's keywords: telescope, universe, galaxy, distant, debate. Pay special attention to compound words like 'redshift,' whose meaning can be inferred by breaking it down into red + shift. Practicing 'guessing the meaning from the surrounding sentences' before looking up an unfamiliar word in a dictionary will improve your scoring ability on tests like EIKEN and in reading comprehension.
Explanation
Let's try reading the latest space news through English headlines. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found many "little red dots" in the early universe. Scientists are still debating whether they are young galaxies with huge black holes, or dense groups of stars. The word "dot" means a small point, and "red" is a clue: distant light is stretched and looks redder (redshift). Technical terms are also a good teaching material because they can be guessed from context.
Source: www.nikkei-science.com