An Unusual Galaxy with a Different Center
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a machine.
- A2
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a big machine.
- B1
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a big machine that takes pictures of things far away.
- B2
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a big machine that takes pictures of things far away.
- C1
Located approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo, a spiral galaxy has recently been captured in an image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
- C2
Located approximately 55 million light-years away—a light-year being the distance that light travels in one Earth year—in the constellation of Virgo, a spiral galaxy has recently been captured in an image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- spiral
- winding in a continuous and gradually widening curve from a central point
- spin
- turning around and around very quickly
- constellation
- a group of stars in the sky that forms a specific pattern or picture
- unusual
- not common, ordinary, or normal
- rotate
- to move in a circle around a fixed central point
- gravity
- the natural force that pulls objects toward each other, like pulling things to the ground
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.