Hubble Captures a Gravitational Lens for a New Space Telescope
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How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a new picture.
- A2
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a picture of a gravitational lens.
- B1
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a gravitational lens.
- B2
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a gravitational lens.
- C1
When two galaxies line up in space, the closer galaxy acts like a giant lens.
- C2
When two galaxies happen to line up across the cosmos, the nearer of the pair acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- bend
- to cause something to curve and not be straight
- observation
- the act of watching something carefully, especially to learn about it
- invisible
- impossible to see
- mass
- the amount of material in an object
- curved
- having a round shape that is not straight
- measure
- to find the size, amount, or level of something
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.