Notes:
lunar eclipse 月食;
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Get ready to watch a great performance in the sky. There will be a lunar eclipse tonight, and the moon will get dark for several hours. How does this happen? The earth moves between the sun and the moon, and the earth’s shadow falls on the moon. The moon loses its bright yellow color and becomes a dark red. Tonight the moon will start to change color after 8:50 p.m, and at 10:30 it will be at its darkest. It will get lighter again, and just after midnight the eclipse will be over. If the weather is good in your area, you will be able to see it in the southeast sky. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
astronaut 宇宙飛行士;
paper spring 紙バネ;
wire top 針金ゴマ
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On Sunday, Kanai Norishige became the 12th Japanese astronaut to go up into space. He went up in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. Two other astronauts joined him, Anton Shkaplerov of Russia and Scott Tingle of the U.S.A. They are all heading to the International Space Station and will get there sometime today. This time, Kanai will do two experiments that were designed by high school students. One is to see how a paper spring works in almost zero gravity. The other is to see how a wire top spins. I hope they will take a video and show us what happens later! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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