Although the stars were just half a million years old-still in their infancy in stellar time scales-most had already lost their planet-forming disks of gas and dust.

虽然这些恒星只有五十万年——按照恒星的时间尺度计算，它们还处于婴儿期——但是大都已经失去了其形成行星的由气体与尘埃组成的圆盘。

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This is the first time a stellar black hole (as opposed those giant, galaxy-centered black holes) has been seen being born.

这是第一次发现正在出生的恒星黑洞(相对那些巨大的，位于星系中心的黑洞)。

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Also that stellar week, on May 27, Jupiter and Neptune will align in a magical conjunction for the first time since early 1997.

在5月27日，那个恒星周，木星和海王星再次形成一个神奇的角度，这是自从1997年来的第一次。

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So far, the performance of many of the listed Chinese banks, natural-resources companies and other big firms under state control has been stellar over time.

WSJ: Outgoing Hong Kong Securities Regulator Head: 'China Is the New Dot-Com'

Rooms are dedicated to SUNY Buffalo's English department (its stellar faculty at the time included critic Leslie Fiedler, novelist John Barth and poet Robert Creeley) and to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, then under the dynamic leadership of conductors Lukas Foss and Michael Tilson Thomas.

WSJ: Wish You Were Here | Albright-Knox | They Shuffled Off to Buffalo | By Richard B. Woodward

LinkedIn has taken its time to achieve stellar status but as comScore pointed out this week the business network site reached the number 2 spot for social networks in the USA in June (as measured by unique visitors), overtaking former social network darling, MySpace.

FORBES: Why LinkedIn Deserves to be The Number 1 Social Network