This artist's concept of Kepler-10b shows the smallest known exoplanet, announced in January 2011.
这幅Kepler-10b类地行星的艺术效果图呈现出2011年1月公布地已知的最小的行星.
Kepler-10b, however, has some curious parallels with the solar system's non-existent innermost planet.
然而对Kepler - 10b的好奇与当年搜索太阳系内不存在的近核心行星颇有相似之处。
Kepler-10b, to give this planet's current name, is the latest discovery by Kepler, an American spacecraft.
这颗星球现在被叫做Kepler - 10b，是美国航天器Kepler的最新发现。
Too hot to handle: a Nasa artist's impression of Kepler-10b, the smallest planet ever found outside our solar system.
太热了而不能处理：美国宇航局的一个专家对开普勒10的印象是太阳系外我们发现的最小的行星。
And with 1.4 times the size of Earth, Kepler-10b is more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun, and whips around the star once every 0.84 days.
其大小是地球的1.4倍，距其主星的距离却比水星与太阳之间的距离小了20倍之多，而公转周期也缩短至0.84天。
Yet a rocky world named Kepler 10b is being described by astronomers as one of the greatest discoveries in history – a ‘missing link’ between Earth and the giant planets made of gas.
一个命名为开普勒10的岩石星球被天文学家描述为历史上最伟大的发现之一—地球与巨大星球关于气体缺失了链接。
Nasa yesterday revealed details of Kepler 10b, the smallest known planet outside our solar system and the first to be confirmed as ‘undoubtedly rocky’.
美国宇航局昨天透露了开普勒10的细节，是我们发现的太阳系外最小的行星并且是第一个被确认为“毫无疑问的岩石星球”。
Kepler 10b, whose intense heat comes from the fact that it orbits its star so closely, is too distant and small to be seen directly.
高温的开普勒10的轨道距离它的恒星太近了，以至于太远太小不能直接观测到。
Dr Geoffrey Marcy, from the University of California Berkeley, said that Kepler 10b was' a bridge between the gas giant planets we've been finding and the Earth itself '.
加州大学伯克利分校的马西·杰弗里教授说，开普勒10是我们发现的气体星球与地球的桥梁。
If Kepler can find a planet as small as 10b, it can certainly find one that's smaller.
如果开普勒可以发现像10b这么小的星球，那它肯定可以发现比这更小的。
If Kepler can find a planet as small as 10b, it can certainly find one that's smaller.
如果开普勒可以发现像10b这么小的星球，那它肯定可以发现比这更小的。
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