Time to start giving extrasolar planets proper names
该替太阳系之外的行星适当取名了
As of 2007, three extrasolar planets have been confirmed in orbit around this pulsar.
直至2007年，在这颗脉冲星周围轨道上已有三颗系外行星被确认。
Also, recent searches for extrasolar planets have concluded that planets are not rare.
另外，近期对太阳系外行星的研究结论表示，行星数量并不算少。
The discoveries bring the total number of known extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, to 645.
这些发现使已知的太阳系外行星或系外行星总数量增至645个。
The study may help astronomers build telescopes to pick out life-friendly extrasolar planets in the future.
这项研究将来也许可以为天文学家搭建用以选择太阳系外适合生存的行星的望远镜提供帮助。
The Doppler effect is used to discover extrasolar planets.
都卜勒效应通常用于探索太阳系外行星。
The search for extrasolar planets has been going on for32 years.
寻找太阳系以外的星球已经进行三十二年了。
Research on extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of activity in astrophysics.
对太阳系以外的行星的研究是在天体物理学方面的活动的最令人激动的领域之一。
1994 - The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
1994年的今天，天文学家亚历山大·沃兹贞宣布首次发现了外太阳系的行星。
So far, only a handful of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have had their pictures taken directly.
到目前为止，我们仅仅获得了少数几个太阳系外行星的直接照片。
The planet is one of three extrasolar planets orbiting the young star HR 8799, which lies 130 light-years away.
这个行星是绕着年轻恒星HR 8799运行的三个系外行星中的一员，这个恒星距离地球130光年。
Barnes’ simulations predicted more-dire consequences for extrasolar planets near the edge of their habitable zones, though.
然而，巴恩斯所作的模拟预测出处于可居住区边缘的系外行星更为可怕的后果。
So say three teams of scientists who used the Spitzer space telescope to capture the light spectrum of two known extrasolar planets.
三支科学家小组用“斯必择”空间望远镜捕获了两个已知的太阳系外行星的光谱。
Of course, there is the possibility that intelligent, scientifically minded alien species do evolve quite readily on extrasolar planets.
当然，也可能太阳系外智能的、有着科学思维的外星物种，其演化是很容易的。
It will probe the mysterious magnetic field that exists between the stars, and its resolving power will help with the search for extrasolar planets.
它将探测星际间存在的神秘磁场，而且其分辨力将有助于寻找太阳系外的行星。
Looking for transiting extrasolar planets is analogous to palle and colleagues' technique - using the Moon as a mirror to watch Earth transit the Sun.
观察太阳系外行星凌日的技术同Palle和他同事的技术近似，那就是利用月亮作为镜子看地球相对于太阳的凌日。
It is quite possible that, within our lifetimes, atmospheric studies of these extrasolar planets will provide the first evidence of biological life beyond Earth.
在我们的有生之年，对于这些外太阳系行星大气层的研究，很有可能提供地球外存在生命的首个证据。
But existing plans to photograph extrasolar planets in this way involve orbiting arrays of reflecting telescopes all pointing in exactly the same direction.
但是在现在的计划中，利用这种方法给太阳系以外的行星拍照就需要让多组的反射望远镜在轨道运行的时候全部精准的朝向同一个方向。
Since 2006 there's been an explosion in the number of these extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, known to exist, with the current count at more than 400 and rising.
从2006年开始，太阳系外行星被发现的数目开始了激增。就目前数据已经发现了400多颗太阳系以外的行星，并且这个数目还在增长。
The Keck Observatory has been invaluable in detecting extrasolar planets, worlds around other stars that were long postulated but only detected in the last dozen years or so.
近十几年来，人类开始探测到其他恒星周围的行星，在探测太阳系以外行星的过程中，凯克望远镜具有不可估量的的价值。
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data — an archive that may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets.
通过19年来的观测，哈勃空间望远镜已经建立了一个巨大的档案库——这中间就可能包含还未发现的系外行星的踪迹。
According to NASA, "Astronomers using ground-based telescopes to hunt for planets outside our solar system, dubbed extrasolar planets, have nabbed more than a hundred alien worlds."
美国国家航空航天局表示，天文学家使用地面望远镜搜寻在太阳系之外的行星，发现了上百个不同的天体。
Of the 156,000 target stars in the telescope's field of vision, the 43 days of observations found 706 possible extrasolar planets from Earth size up to a bit bigger than Jupiter.
通过对望远镜视野之内的156,000个目标恒星的观测，在43天的时间里发现了706个体积介乎地球和略大于木星之间的太阳系外行星。
Though over 300 extrasolar planets have been found using other techniques, this picture likely represents the first direct image of a planet belonging to a star similar to the Sun.
尽管运用其他技术，我们已经发现了300多颗太阳系外行星，但这张图片可能是围绕另一颗类日恒星旋转的行星的第一张直观照片。
Sunlight that bounced back from the Moon carried a fingerprint of the Earth's atmosphere that could help astronomers determine if the extrasolar planets they're finding harbour life.
从月亮反射的太阳光形成一个地球大气层的“指纹”，可以帮助天文学家断定他们发现的那些太阳系之外的行星上是否孕育着生命。
Three other extrasolar planets believed to be of rocky composition have been reported, but they orbit a pulsar - the flashing corpse of an exploded star - rather than a normal type of star.
之前人们曾报道过另外三颗据信由岩石组成的太阳系外行星，但是，它们是围绕着一颗脉冲星(恒星爆发后遗留的发光的残存物)运转的，而不是一颗常态的恒星。
Three other extrasolar planets believed to be of rocky composition have been reported, but they orbit a pulsar - the flashing corpse of an exploded star - rather than a normal type of star.
之前人们曾报道过另外三颗据信由岩石组成的太阳系外行星，但是，它们是围绕着一颗脉冲星(恒星爆发后遗留的发光的残存物)运转的，而不是一颗常态的恒星。
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