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Background information
The telescope is an instrument
that collects the light coming from
a distant object, gathers it in a
spot called focus and produces an
enlarged image. This word comes
from the Greek tēle (‘far’) and
skopein (‘to see, to look at’). It was
invented by Galileo, who showed

its use for the first time in Venice in
1609.
The Noon mark, in the picture next
to that of the telescope, is outside
the Wellington Carter Observatory
in Wellington (New Zealand). This
observatory, once the base for
astronomical research, became the
National Observatory in 1977 and
has recently become an institution

of scientific publication in the field of
astronomy.

Exercise 1
1 telescope
2 sun
3 astronomer
4 astrologer
5 planets

Exercise 2 1.9
Audioscript
1 Mercury
2 Venus
3 Earth
4 Mars Note :
5 Jupiter There is no answer key for
6 Saturn the open-ended questions or

7 Uranus questions with flexible answers.
8 Neptune

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