According to legend, Columbus, looking at an astronomical almanac compiled by a German mathematician, realized that a total eclipse of the moon would occur on Feb. 29, 1504.
据传说，哥伦布查阅了一位德国数学家编撰的天文年历，发现1504年2月29日将会发生一次月全食。
These different perspectives are then combined to form into a three-dimensional image by a computer using a trick from astronomical analysis known as MURA (modified uniformly redundant array).
这些影像输入计算机后，通过一种天文分析算法—改进式均匀冗余阵列（MURA, modified uniformly redundant array）整合生成一个三维的图像。
June 2004's transit of Venus was thus more of an astronomical spectacle than a scientifically important event.
因此，2004年6月的金星凌日与其说是一个重要的科学事件，不如说是一个天文奇观。
Bille and his team work with an optical instrument called an active mirror—a device used in astronomical telescopes to spot newly emerging stars and far distant galaxies.
比尔和他的团队使用一种被称为“活动镜”的光学仪器，这是一种在天文望远镜的种类中用来发现新出现的恒星和遥远星系的仪器。
Classical geology borrowed a decisive, if unspoken, premise from Newton—the independence of Earth's processes from any astronomical context.
经典地质学从牛顿那里借用了一个决定性的前提——地球过程独立于任何天文环境。
On 8 June 2004, more than half the population of the world were treated to a rare astronomical event.
2004年6月8日，世界上一半以上的人有幸目睹了罕见的天文现象。
Let's think beyond light pollution; that's only one kind of a technological advance that has interfered with astronomical research.
让我们想想光污染以外的问题，那只是一种科技进步为天文研究带来的不便。
There is a small network of rhombus in tokyo astronomical observatory.
东京天文台有一个小的菱形网。
Just half a dozen holiday-makers have reached orbit since then, for similarly astronomical price tags.
从那之后，只有6个度假者到达了太空轨道，价格也同样是天文数字。
If that really is where is came from, it would have had to be a pretty powerful astronomical event - or an advanced alien civilisation using an astonishingly large and powerful transmitter.
如果他真的是来自那里，它必将是一个非常强有力的天文事件——或者说，一个先进的外星文明正在使用一台大得令人吃惊的强力发射机。
Ordinary astronomical phenomena are imbued with a sense of threat by people who already think the world is going to end.
对那些认为世界已经走到尽头的人来说，任何普通的天文现象都可以是凶兆。
The second asteroid belt lies at about 20 astronomical units from the star, or a position comparable to Uranus in our solar system.
第二个行星带距离它的恒星为20个天文单位，这相当于太阳系中天王星的位置。
They are able to do so because these records use both compass bearings and astronomical observations to locate a vessel.
他们之所以能够那样做，是因为这些原始记录同时使用了罗盘方位于天文观察来定位一艘航海船。
He claimed that the bill for wining and dining the guests for a week would be "astronomical".
他认为一周来招待客人们吃喝的账单一定是个‘天文数字’。
The inner belt orbits at a distance of about 3 astronomical units from its star — or about the same position as the asteroid belt in our own solar system.
内侧行星带距离它的恒星为3个天文单位——或者相当于太阳系中的行星带与太阳的距离。
So Emmerich found a way to kill the Earth using a faux astronomical event (there is no planetary alignment in the year 2012) and by inventing a solar interaction that has never been observed.
导演艾默里克用一个虚假的天文事件毁灭了地球(2012年是不会出现行星对其的现象的)，他还无中生有了从未观测到的太阳系互动行为。
Most planet-formation models predict a “planet desert” within one astronomical unit (or the average distance from the Earth to the sun) of a host star.
大多数行星形成模型预言在主恒星一个天文单位（或从地球到太阳的平均距离）以内会有一个“沙漠之星”。
Astro-plugins: a set of plugins for astronomical image processing.
Astro - plugins：天文图象处理的一组插件。
Because you know there really is a simply astronomical number of states accessible to the whole bunch of atoms or molecules in this room.
因为你知道是个天文数字，他们可以处在的状态的数目，对于这个屋子里面的或者原子，大量的分子。
I've mulled over these warnings and have converged on what I think are some simple truths, from a purely astronomical perspective.
我曾经也反复思考过这些警告，并从纯粹的天文学角度来集中考虑一些简单的事实。
The Moon will eventually become a coordinated astronomical observatory that will greatly expand humankind's knowledge of the universe.
月球最终将成为一个综合的天文观察基地，它将极大地开拓人类关于宇宙的知识体系。
Whittle, whose primary area of research relates to galaxy formation, presented his cosmic riff at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver.
在美国天文学会近期在丹佛举办的一个会议上，以星系形成为主要研究领域的惠特尔介绍了他的宇宙即兴小段。
This panorama over the island of Kvaloya in Norway showcases a variety of different astronomical objects and phenomena.
这张图片拍摄于挪威的科瓦罗亚岛，画面展示的是各种各样的天体和天文现象。
While there are scientists who think RNA could have arisen spontaneously on early Earth, others say the odds of such a thing happening are astronomical.
尽管有些科学家认为RNA可能自然产生于早期的地球上，而另一些科学家却认为发生这种事情的可能性犹如天方夜谭。
Deacon only referred to it as a massive astronomical object, causing serious gravitational and other effects.
狄肯只提到它作为一个巨大的天体，能造成严重的引力和其他方面的影响。
Astronomical data will be generated on an industrial scale and mined from a laptop.
天文学将会产生工业规模的数据，而用一台笔记本电脑进行数据挖掘。
Astronomical data will be generated on an industrial scale and mined from a laptop.
天文学将会产生工业规模的数据，而用一台笔记本电脑进行数据挖掘。
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