If you do that, then maybe you will see why I am not so foolish after all to have followed what seems sometimes only a faint star.

如若您能据此思考，定当理解我为何尾随一颗暗淡的星辰，知道我实非痴愚。

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This is a supernova, which when seen from Earth, appears as a bright new star in a place where none (or only a very faint star) appeared to be before.

这就是超新星，从地球上看原本没有星星(者是一颗很黯淡的星)地方出现了一个明亮的新星。

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In this representative color picture, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the faint star.

在下面这张假彩图片中，环绕双星的炽热蓝光池塘就是受那颗暗星的表面高温激发所致。

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Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.

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But at the center of the facade over the main entrance sits the faint imprint of the Star of David, the symbol of Judaism.

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Secondly, the detection of multiple planets demolishes once and for all the lingering doubts of some astronomers that the single planets found around other stars are not planets at all, but small, faint components in otherwise conventional binary star systems.

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