类地行星，83岁凤头鹦鹉逝世
Earth-like planet, Pink cockatoo dies at 83
Today’s news stories are:
今日提要
New Earth-like planet discovered
科学家发现类地行星
Goodbye Cookie: pink cockatoo dies at 83
再见“曲奇”：83岁凤头鹦鹉逝世
Here the words and phrases for you to learn
下面是你可以学习的单词和短语
orbiting
（天体）沿（恒星或行星的）轨道运行着
mourning
哀悼，悼念
Some exciting news now, because scientists say they’ve found a planet orbiting the closest star outside our solar system.
这条消息很让人振奋，因为科学家说他们发现了一颗正绕着离太阳系最近的恒星，比邻星轨道运行的行星。
orbiting：moving in a circular path around an object(especially for planets)
（天体）沿（恒星或行星的）轨道运行着
Some exciting news now, because scientists say they’ve found a planet orbiting the closest star outside our solar system.
这条消息很让人振奋，因为科学家说他们发现了一颗正绕着离太阳系最近的恒星，比邻星轨道运行的行星。
And they say Proxima b, which is about four light years away, is a rocky globe that could have enough surface water to support life.
这颗被命名为“比邻星b”的行星离地球的距离约为四光年，它的表面多岩石，而且可能产生足够液态水来支持生命存活。
And finally, let's take you to a zoo in the American city of Chicago.
最后，我们带你到美国芝加哥的动物园里去看看。
Celebrations, but also a bit of mourning for a special cockatoo, who has died at the age of 83.
这是对一只特殊的凤头鹦鹉一生的庆祝，同时也是悼念。这只凤头鹦鹉去世时83岁。
mourning：sadness because someone has died
哀悼，悼念
And finally, let's take you to a zoo in the American city of Chicago.
最后，我们带你到美国芝加哥的动物园里去看看。
Celebrations, but also a bit of mourning for a special cockatoo, who has died at the age of 83.
这是对一只特殊的凤头鹦鹉一生的庆祝，同时也是悼念。这只凤头鹦鹉去世时83岁。
Here's Cookie, a pink cockatoo, celebrating, in these pictures, his birthday back in June.
它就是“曲奇”（Cookie），一只粉红色的凤头鹦鹉，画面中看到的是它在六月份庆祝自己生日时的景象。
He's believed to have been the oldest known bird of his kind.
人们认为它是到目前为止存活最久的凤头鹦鹉
He arrived in the zoo in the 1930s.
曲奇于三十年代来到芝加哥动物园
He retired a few years ago.
直到几年前才“退休”。