由于其巨大的质量，这个星系团相当于一个宇宙放大镜，使光线在它的四周弯曲。
Because of its huge mass, the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass, causing light to bend around it.
Cobe的设计只是为了观测最大的结构，但天文学家们也希望看到更小的热点，即星系团和超星系团等局部天体的种子。
Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures, but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well, the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters of galaxies.
我们有着地球上的局部范围和星系团之间的联系。
We have a link between our local scale of the Earth and galaxy clusters.
卡什林斯基和同事们是在研究星系团气体与宇宙微波背景辐射之间相互作用时首次注意到黑暗流的。
Kashlinsky and colleagues first noticed the dark flow when studying the way gas in galaxy clusters interacts with the cosmic microwave background radiation.
像MACS 1206这种星系团是研究暗物质的引力效应的绝佳实验室，因为它们有宇宙中最大规模的结构。
Galaxy clusters like MACS 1206 are perfect laboratories for studying dark matter's gravitational effects because they are the most massive structures in the universe.
重力能使光线弯折，使巨大的星系团象望远镜一样，扭曲背景星系的图像，使之变得细长。
Gravity can bend light, allowing huge clusters of galaxies to act as telescopes, and distorting images of background galaxies into elongated strands.
在遥远宇宙拥挤的星系团的环境中，这样宏伟的宇宙合并被认为是很常见的。
Such spectacular cosmic mergers are thought to be common in crowded galaxy cluster environments in the distant universe.
这幅哈伯天文望远镜拍摄的图片显示的是新总表1275，该星系位于英仙座星系团的中部。
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1275, the galaxy located in the center of the Perseus galaxy Cluster.
这张照片中的后发星系团是已知最密集的星系团之一——包含了数千个星系。
The Coma cluster of galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies.
尽管如此，科学家们仍在进行搜索，寻找极值距离处的其它星系团。
Searches are nonetheless being carried out to find other galaxy clusters at extreme distances.
我们认为，引力不可能足够快地聚集更早期的星系团。
We don't think gravity can work fast enough to make galaxy clusters much earlier.
在靠近天穹边缘出现的NGC 253 距离我们只有 1300 万光年之遥，它是玉夫星系团的最大的成员，和我们所在的星系团相邻。
Seen nearly edge-on, NGC 253 is only 13 million light-years away, the largest member of the Sculptor Group of galaxies, neighbor to our own local galaxy group.
星系团阿贝尔2218自身约在30亿光年远，在北天星座天龙座。
The cluster of galaxies Abell 2218 is itself about three billion light-years away in the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco).
这巨大质量星系团望远镜的强力使天文学家探测到了一个红移5.58的遥远星系。
The power of this massive cluster telescope has allowed astronomers to detect a galaxy at the distant redshift of 5.58.
通过“钱德拉”X射线绕轨太空望远镜对星系团的增长模式进行观测研究，他们发现，正如“暗能量”理论预测的一样，星系团的增长受到了抑制。
They used an orbiting X-ray telescope called Chandra to study the way that clusters of galaxies grow. They discovered that this growth is stifled in exactly the way that dark-energy theory predicts.
星系团如此紧凑、质量如此巨大，以致其重力扭曲和聚焦了它后面星系发出的光。
The cluster is so massive and so compact that its gravity bends and focuses the light from galaxies that lie behind it.
这张哈勃太空望远镜的图像中，几乎所有的明亮物体均是阿贝尔2218星系团的成员。
Almost all of the bright objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image are galaxies in the cluster known as Abell 2218.
对照邻近的、大的星系团，他们发现在遥远的、较小的星系团中，正常物质与暗物质的比例几乎是相同的。
They found that the same general ratio of dark matter to normal matter prevailed in these distant, small clusters as for nearby, larger clusters.
据期，含有更多热气的更明亮的星系团对于宇宙微波背景将有更大影响，而这正是新研究要证实的。
Brighter clusters-those with more hot gases-would be expected to have greater affects on the cosmic microwave background, and that's what the new study confirmed.
这个美丽的宇宙岛处在巨大的室女星系团中。
The lovely island universe resides in the large Virgo cluster of galaxies.
之前的一些合理的见解，包括那些关于星系团碰撞的报道，都将暗物质和与它们对应的可见物质分离开来。
Other possible previous sightings include reports of collisions between clusters of galaxies that would appear to have separated dark matter from its visible counterpart.
曾经有人以为这是造成银河组成超星系团的原因，不过后来这种想法被抛弃。
This was once thought to be what caused galaxies to form in supercluster complexes, although this idea has since been abandoned.
更长的明亮星团之索指向了星系团中的第四个成员，也就是图中右下方的那个。
A longer rope of bright star clusters points to the fourth member of the group, at lower right.
为了达到这些目的，作者需要继续研究斯隆长城和其它超星系团的形态，并把它们的特征作以比较。
To help achieve this, the authors intend to continue mapping the morphology of the Sloan Great Wall as well as other superclusters to compare their features.
其宽广的旋臂被该星系团另一成员，巨型椭圆星系ngc 4697的引力作用所扭曲。
Its broad arms are distorted by gravitational interaction with a fellow Virgo cluster member, giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4697.
结果表明星团将不断成长为一个现代的星系团。
The results indicate the cluster will keep growing into a modern city of galaxies.
后发星系团及其它星系团的许多星系是椭圆星系，而星系团外面的许多星系是旋涡星系。
Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals, while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals.
后发星系团及其它星系团的许多星系是椭圆星系，而星系团外面的许多星系是旋涡星系。
Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals, while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals.
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