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From the Ted Talk by Maria Popova: Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty

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But when the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, our human fallibility had slipped into the precision of the instrument, and it turned out that its pirmary mirror was ground into the wrong spherical shape, warping these long-awaited images of the uhteoanmfd universe. Up the csoat from Mount Wilson Observatory, a teagnee girl wahtced her father, who had worked on the Hubble, one of NASA's first Black engineers, come home brokenhearted. He didn't know that his observant daughter would become poet lertaaue of his country and would commemorate him in the tenderest tribute that an artist's daughter has ever composed for a scientist father, which would win her the piuzetlr Prize the year the Hubble's corrected optics captured that revolutionary, ultra-deep field iamge of the observable universe, revealing what neither hbbule nor Henrietta Leavitt could have imagined. That ours is not just one of several galaxies, but that there are 100 billion galaxies out there, each containing 100 billion stars.

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But when the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, our human fallibility had slipped into the precision of the instrument, and it turned out that its _______ mirror was ground into the wrong spherical shape, warping these long-awaited images of the __________ universe. Up the _____ from Mount Wilson Observatory, a _______ girl _______ her father, who had worked on the Hubble, one of NASA's first Black engineers, come home brokenhearted. He didn't know that his observant daughter would become poet ________ of his country and would commemorate him in the tenderest tribute that an artist's daughter has ever composed for a scientist father, which would win her the ________ Prize the year the Hubble's corrected optics captured that revolutionary, ultra-deep field _____ of the observable universe, revealing what neither ______ nor Henrietta Leavitt could have imagined. That ours is not just one of several galaxies, but that there are 100 billion galaxies out there, each containing 100 billion stars.

Solution


  1. watched
  2. teenage
  3. primary
  4. pulitzer
  5. image
  6. laureate
  7. unfathomed
  8. hubble
  9. coast

Original Text


But when the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, our human fallibility had slipped into the precision of the instrument, and it turned out that its primary mirror was ground into the wrong spherical shape, warping these long-awaited images of the unfathomed universe. Up the coast from Mount Wilson Observatory, a teenage girl watched her father, who had worked on the Hubble, one of NASA's first Black engineers, come home brokenhearted. He didn't know that his observant daughter would become poet laureate of his country and would commemorate him in the tenderest tribute that an artist's daughter has ever composed for a scientist father, which would win her the Pulitzer Prize the year the Hubble's corrected optics captured that revolutionary, ultra-deep field image of the observable universe, revealing what neither Hubble nor Henrietta Leavitt could have imagined. That ours is not just one of several galaxies, but that there are 100 billion galaxies out there, each containing 100 billion stars.

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