您可能会急于看到一位美国宇航局科学家站出来说，开普勒太空望远镜是用来寻找外星人的。
You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.
美国航空航天局的开普勒太空望远镜首次侦测到五个外部行星，即太阳系之外的行星。
Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System.
这一结果是在开普勒太空望远镜计划的首次科学大会上宣布的，会议上还公布了数量惊人的候选行星。
The results were announced at the Kepler telescope's first science conference, alongside the staggering number of new candidate planets.
开普勒太空望远镜目前已观测到的候选行星总数达到2326颗，其中有207颗行星大小与地球相近。
The total number of candidates spotted by the telescope is now 2,326 - of which 207 are approximately Earth-sized.
很难想象一个行星比煤炭还要黑，但是宇航员们的确声称，他们通过NASA的开普勒太空望远镜在我们所处的银河系发现了这样一颗行星。
It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but that's what astronomers say they've discovered in our home galaxy with NASA's Kepler space telescope.
月球侦查轨道器将一块微型芯片带到了月球，而肩负探索地外生命任务的开普勒太空望远镜则搭载了一张致地外智慧生物的光盘，上面存满了人类的名字和写给地外生物的信息。
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took a microchip to the moon. And the exoplanet-hunting Kepler telescope took a DVD full of names and messages to ET into orbit.
在2年的任务执行中，美国宇航局的行星搜索太空望远镜“开普勒”获得了巨大的成功。
TWO years into its mission, NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been a big success.
“开普勒”小组首先根据凌日法获得地外行星的讯息，然后由开普勒望远镜和其他太空望远镜(包括运行在轨道上的和地球上的)对行星做进一步的观测，最后才将它确定为候选行星。
Kepler identifies these slight changes in starlight as candidate planets, which are then confirmed by further observations by Kepler and other telescopes in orbit and on Earth.
美国宇航局的开普勒，以精练的在一个类似地球的行星，寻找宇宙中的第一个使命任务，利用其高功率利用太空望远镜这些负面形象。
NASA's Kepler, a mission tasked with scouring a section of the universe in search of Earth-like planets, used its high-powered telescope to take these negative images of space.
美国太空总署宣布，一颗环绕两个“太阳”运转的行星被开普勒望远镜发现，这是首次被确定的此种外部星体。
A planet orbiting two SUNS - the first confirmed alien world of its kind - has been found by Nasa's Kepler telescope, the US space agency announced.
美国太空总署宣布，一颗环绕两个“太阳”运转的行星被开普勒望远镜发现，这是首次被确定的此种外部星体。
A planet orbiting two SUNS - the first confirmed alien world of its kind - has been found by Nasa's Kepler telescope, the US space agency announced.
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