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The recently announced discovery of the first known planet orbiting a pulsar
The recently announced discovery of the first known planet orbiting a pulsar
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2024-01-10
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The recently announced discovery of the first known planet orbiting a pulsar (the ultradense, pulsating remnant off the supernova explosion of a star) turned out to be based on faulty data. Had this discovery been confirmed, theorists would have had difficulty accounting for the existence of such a planet. The supernova would certainly have destroyed any preexisting planets. This particular pulsar is relatively young, allowing little time for a new planet to have coalesced, and it rotates relatively slowly, implying that it has not interacted with any nearby star since the supernova.
But newer evidence of a different pulsar with planets is more promising. This is a rapidly spurring “millisecond pulsar" thought to be a much older object that has pulled gaseous material from a stellar neighbor, causing its rotational speed to increase. Leftover, unconsumed gas around such a pulsar could, in theory, coalesce into planets. Or the pulsar’s radiation might have vaporized a companion star, providing new material for planetary formation. [br] The primary purpose of the passage is to
选项
A、provide an example of the dangers of a recent discovery based on faulty data.
B、illustrate the difficulty of explanation concerning a recent discovery.
C、assess the credibility of recent findings concerning the as yet unverified existence of a class of objects.
D、argue that a certain hypothesis fails to account for a seemingly contradictory phenomenon.
E、demonstrate how difficult it might be to find out the reality of a phenomenon.
答案
C
解析
a class of objects指的是围绕脉冲星的行星。文章第一段否认了这种行星的存在,第二段又肯定了行星的存在,既有加强又有削弱,对应assess,因此选项C正确。A项文中没提dangers。B项a recent discovery只对应第一段,没提第二段。D项本文两段其实分别描述了两个现象,一个是没有行星,一个是有行星。E项difficult与本文无关。
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