这意味着联邦航空局可以暂停维珍银河的飞行许可。
That means that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's license to fly.
在去年接受《经济学人》采访时,太空旅游公司维珍银河的首席执行官乔治·怀特赛兹将他的公司归为后一类。
In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.
并非银河的所有部分都是适合生命的。
正常来说银河的磁力场会保护我们免受这种辐射侵袭。
Normally the galaxy's magnetic fields protect us from that radiation.
其实地球远离这个中心,甚至都到了银河的边缘了。
全银河的公民们,今日我们将见证一次伟大的蜕变。
Citizens of the civilized galaxy, on this day we mark a transition.
然而以上这张弧状银河的壮观的图片让我们达到了肉眼看不到的界限。
The above spectacular picture of the Milky Way arch, however, goes where the unaided eye cannot.
对于银河的边界,尚无精准的定义——它们非常模糊,而且理解各异。
There is no precise definition of the Milky Way's edges — they are very vague and depend on the clarity of your view.
对于从银河的窗户里下望的人,空间就不是地球与太阳之间的空间了。
Space is not space between the earth and the sun to one who looks down from the Windows of the Milky Way.
与坐飞机旅游不同,维京银河的运输过程就是旅游过程;到高处俯瞰。
Unlike plane travel, on Virgin Galactic the transportation will be the destination; you go up to look down.
夜空中人眼可以分辨的星星离我们相对较近,它们都是银河的组成部分。
The stars that the human eye can distinguish in the night sky are relatively near and are all part of the Milky Way.
这是在库克岛曼加亚海岸附近的奥纳奥阿村的山头拍摄的南半球银河的图片。
The southern Milky Way viewed over the hilltops outside the village of Oneroa on the coast of Mangaia in the Cook Islands.
第二阶段的建设现在已经开始了,它主要是为了给维京银河的先期飞行做准备。
Construction of phase two has already begun and is set for completion in time for Virgin Galactic's pioneering flights.
到银河的边缘需要80年的时间,但我们旅行真正的目的是要解密神秘的宇宙。
A trip to the edge of the galaxy would take just 80 years. But the real wonder of our journey is that it reveals just how strange the universe is.
当然如果人类能够长久存在,你的后代可以在银河的某个遥远的角落找到你的钱财。
Assuming, of course, that the human race exists for that long and your heirs can be found in some distant corner of the Milky Way.
他注解道银河的北边指向的是室女座大星云,一个临近星系聚在一起组成的庞然大物。
He notes that the Milky Way's north side points toward the Virgo cluster, an enormous nearby gathering of galaxies.
我们无从知晓银河系中是否还有其他的智慧生命,抑或我们人类是银河的唯一孩子(目前,事实是这样的)。
We could be the only life-forms in our entire galaxy (so far, there is little evidence otherwise).
WISE收录了从小行星到彗星、从我们的太阳系到整个银河的星云再到宇宙中其他遥远星系的各种天体。
WISE cataloged objects ranging from asteroids and comets within our solar system to nebulae throughout the Milky way and faraway galaxies in other parts of the universe.
银河的广袤在这些图片里展示得淋漓尽致,他只用了一个三脚架和一架普通的数码相机就拍到了离地球2万5千光年远的星星。
The enormity of the Milky Way is shown in these stunning images, captured using only a standard digital camera and tripod, of stars 25,000 light years from Earth.
这座位于美国新墨西哥州南部的拉斯·克鲁塞斯占地1800英亩的宇航中心是维京银河的原型,也是理查德·布兰森最宏大的商业项目之一。
The 1, 800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the home base for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's most ambitious business venture yet.
对八个相对较近的星系进行了测算的天文学家们找到证据——有令人惊异的数量的黯淡的低质量恒星存在,它们每一个都跟银河的十倍那样多。
Astronomers who examined eight relatively nearby galaxies have found evidence of a surprisingly high abundance of faint, low-mass stars — each has about 10 times as many as the Milky Way.
前曼联和皇马球星目前在洛杉矶银河的合约已经进入了最后一年。 尽管洛杉矶方面想要延长合约,但贝克汉姆同样被法甲球队巴黎圣日耳曼追逐。
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder is currently in the final year of his contract with MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy.
他是该项目的主要调查员。因为宇宙线是带电的,它们回溯发射源的轨迹会被银河的磁场破坏,所以宇宙射线图像上任何一个热点都需要一个解释。
Because cosmic rays are charged, their inbound trajectory should be jumbled by the Milky Way's magnetic field, so any hot spot on the cosmic ray map demands an explanation.
这意味着联邦航空局可以吊销维珍银河公司的飞行执照。
That means that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's licence to fly.
从一端到另一端,银河系布满星星的圆盘横跨12万光年,可以用肉眼和光学望远镜观察到。
From end to end, the Milky Way's starry disk, observable with the naked eye and through optical telescopes, spans 120,000 light-years.
即使是我们银河系附近的恒星发出的光,也无法与之抗衡。
Light from stars, even nearby in our own galaxy, doesn't stand a chance against that.
这三颗尖尖的恒星位于我们的银河系。
每十年至少有一颗超新星在我们的银河系中出现。
据此,你可以计算出银河系的总质量。
据此,你可以计算出银河系的总质量。
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