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NASA EARTH PICTURES SHOW EXTENT OF ECLIPSE

NASA has released new pictures of the Earth showing the vast
extent of Wednesday’s spectacular solar eclipse.

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・vast[adj.]
⇒ extremely large in area, size, amount, etc.

・extent[noun]
⇒ how large, important, serious, etc.

・spectacular[adj., noun]
⇒ very impressive

[verb]って何？って方に
品詞の説明ページです ⇒ cnn.eq-g.com/article/word_use.php

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ASIA SET FOR ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ SOLAR ECLIPSE

Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to
music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA
describes as an “exceptionally long” total solar eclipse that
will cross half the planet on Wednesday.

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・exceptional[adj.]
⇒ very unusual

・remote[adj., noun]
⇒ far away from places where other people live

・witness[noun, verb]
⇒ to see sth happen (typically a crime or an accident)

[verb]って何？って方に
品詞の説明ページです ⇒ cnn.eq-g.com/article/word_use.php

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STUNNING FOSSIL MAY BE EARLY HUMAN ANCESTOR

Scientists hailed on Tuesday a 47-million-year-old fossil of an
ancient primate as a possible common ancestor of monkeys,
primates and humans.

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・stunning[adj.]
⇒ extremely surprising or shocking

・hail[verb, noun]　~ sb/sth (as) sth
⇒ to describe sb/sth as being very good or special,
especially in newspapers, etc.

・fossil[noun]
⇒ the remains of an animal or a plant
which have become hard and turned into rock

・primate[noun]
⇒ any animal that belongs to the group of mammals
that includes humans, apes and monkeys

・ancestor[noun]
⇒ an animal that lived in the past
which a modern animal has developed from

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SPACE STATION IN CLOSE CALL WITH ORBITING JUNK

A piece of space debris forces the crew of the international
space station to take shelter in their return capsule, the first
time an orbiting hazard has required an evacuation, NASA
confirms.

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・debris[noun]
⇒ pieces of wood, metal, brick, etc. that are left after sth has been destroye

・shelter[noun, verb]
⇒protection from rain, danger or attack

・evacuation[noun]
⇒to move people from a place of danger to a safer place

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