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Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
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- Large collisions help planets to slowly form.
- Astronomers saw dusty clouds after collisions in space.
- This happened around the star Fomalhaut nearby.
- Hubble first showed a bright point near a belt.
- People thought this point was a planet.
- Later the point moved like dust.
- Later scientists found another bright spot.
- Both spots are light from dust clouds.
- The colliding objects were very big.
- Telescopes will watch the dust clouds move.
Difficult words
- collision — a strong hit between two large objectscollisions
- astronomer — a person who studies stars and spaceAstronomers
- dusty — covered with small fine pieces of dirt
- belt — a ring of material around a star
- telescope — a tool to see far objects in spaceTelescopes
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever looked at stars or the sky at night?
- Would you like to watch things move with a telescope?
- Do you think space has many dust clouds?
