开普勒怎么寻找行星?
The first one is called Kepler.
第一个叫做开普勒(Kepler)。
But Kepler is good at finding spots on stars.
但是“开普勒”望远镜善于发现这些恒星上的黑点。
Kepler, by contrast, can find such planets easily.
相比之下,开普勒可以很容易地找到这样的行星。
The discovery was made by NASA's planet-hunting telescope Kepler.
这颗行星是由美宇航局的开普勒星球追踪望远镜发现的。
The Kepler missionis similar to COROT, but will be more sensitive.
开普勒探测器与COROT卫星相类似,但会更灵敏;
Tony Kepler raises killer snakes for a living and he loves his job.
托尼·开普勒以养蛇为生,他热爱自己的工作。
The new planet, called Kepler 10-b, orbits a sun-like star 560 light-years away.
这个新的星体被命名为:Kepler 10 - b,它围绕着一个距离560光年类似太阳的恒星运转。
KEPLER, America’s planet-hunting space probe, is now really getting into its stride.
美国太空行星探测器开普勒又朝人类迈向宇宙的计划前进了一大步。
With luck, the Kepler launch will help us to find clues to our destiny in good time.
运气好的话,也许开普勒号的发射能够帮助我们提前找到人类命运的蛛丝马迹。
If Kepler can find a planet as small as 10b, it can certainly find one that's smaller.
如果开普勒可以发现像10b这么小的星球,那它肯定可以发现比这更小的。
Bill Borucki is the principal investigator for NASA's planet-finding Kepler spacecraft.
Bill Borucki是美国航空航天局星球发现者开普勒航天器的首席调查员。
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new planets that are close to earth's size.
美国国家航空航天局的“开普勒”宇宙飞船发现了与地球大小接近的三颗新行星。
The other big deal is that Kepler is sensitive enough to have found something this small.
另一巨大的收获是开普勒望远镜如此灵敏,连这样的一颗小星体都能观测得来。
However, the team does not yet know if Kepler 22-b is made mostly of rock, gas or liquid.
不过,这颗行星的主要成分究竟是岩石、气体还是液体,科学家们尚不清楚。
The Kepler mission, for example, has confirmed and announced seven new alien worlds to date.
例如,开普勒任务至今已经证实并宣布了7个新的外星世界。
Just this March, however, NASA launched the Kepler satellite to search for Earth-like planets.
不过,就在这个三月,NASA启动了开普勒卫星去搜寻类似地球的行星。
Still, the discovery has scientists optimistic about what else Kepler might be able to reveal.
即使如此,该发现还是让科学家为之一振,他们期待开普勒能有更多新发现。
As Kepler showed, the Earth's orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one of the two focal points.
开普勒曾表明,地球的轨道是一个椭圆,这个椭圆有两个焦点,太阳在其中一个上。
TWO years into its mission, NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been a big success.
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。
And I first want to discuss with you the three famous laws by Kepler from the early 17th century.
首先,我想和大家探讨,17世纪开普勒提出的,著名的三定律。
It was something along these lines that Kepler was thinking when he borrowed this word from Latin.
正是大致沿着这条线索,开普勒从拉丁语中借用了这个词。
This artist's concept of Kepler-10b shows the smallest known exoplanet, announced in January 2011.
这幅Kepler-10b类地行星的艺术效果图呈现出2011年1月公布地已知的最小的行星.
So far, the astronomers have seven months of data, and Kepler is scheduled to operate for 3.5 years.
到目前,天文学家记录了7个月的数据,而开普勒团队的计划是观察记录3.5年。
Kepler works by monitoring the thousands of stars in its field of view for tiny changes in brightness.
开普勒望远镜的工作原理是监测其视野内成千上万个恒星的亮度的微小变化。
Scientists hope that Kepler could find dozens of habitable planets during its three-to-four-year mission.
科学家们希望开普勒在其为期3至4年的使命中,能找到几十个适合居住的行星。
Kepler-10b, to give this planet's current name, is the latest discovery by Kepler, an American spacecraft.
这颗星球现在被叫做Kepler - 10b,是美国航天器Kepler的最新发现。
Kepler-10b, to give this planet's current name, is the latest discovery by Kepler, an American spacecraft.
这颗星球现在被叫做Kepler - 10b,是美国航天器Kepler的最新发现。
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