Already researchers are locating giant planets far enough from the gravitational pull of their host star to potentially harbor stable satellites.
研究者已经在寻找那些距离其母恒星的引力足够远，以致可能庇护安定的卫星的巨型行星。
Not only is the planet a gas giant similar to Jupiter or Saturn, the planet follows an orbit that brings it very close to its parent star.
除了因为它是土星和木星那样的巨型气态行星以外，它运行的轨道有些时候和其母星非常靠近。
The same team of astronomers who discovered it had earlier found another planet, this time a gaseous giant similar to Neptune, orbiting the same star every 5.4 days.
发现这颗行星同样一组天文学家早些时候也发现另一颗行星，该行星同海王星类似，是一颗巨大的气体行星，围绕恒星运转的周期为5.4天。
In Hollywood's golden age, the celebrated films of the day were often giant star vehicles, dramas and tearjerkers that let the leading men and women emote until the rafters fell down.
在好莱坞的黄金时代，当时闻名的电影常常是巨星施展才华的平台，剧情片和催泪片使男女主演使尽浑身解数表现丰富情感。
In Avatar: the white-yellow glow of Alpha Centauri a, a star very similar to our Sun, illuminates the giant gaseous planet Polyphemus and its tropical moon Pandora.
影片中：与我们的太阳非常相似的半人马座阿尔法甲发出淡黄色的光芒，光芒照耀下的是巨大的气态行星波吕斐摩斯和它的卫星——炎热的潘多拉。
It's a gas giant planet also called Osiris, and it's orbiting so close to its star that some of its atmosphere gets blown away by the stellar wind.
它是颗气态大行星，也叫“欧西·里斯”星。它的运行轨迹过于接近其恒星，致使它的部分大气层被恒星吹起。
When a star similar to the sun fuses most of its hydrogen into helium, then the helium into carbon, the star becomes unstable and puffs out into a red giant.
当一颗类日恒星大部分的氢聚变为氦，氦又聚变成碳的时候，它就变得不再稳定，而膨胀成一颗红巨星。
Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass. Astronomers estimate the star could be up to 15 times more massive than our sun.
巨星S106IR位于沙漏的束腰位置，天文学家估计该恒星的质量可能是我们太阳质量的15倍。
The enormous gravity of the giant black hole stretched the star until it was torn apart.
黑洞产生的巨大引力会撕扯这颗恒星，直到将其撕裂。
This causes the star's outer layers to expand enormously and to cool and glow red as they do so, rendering the star a red giant.
这使得恒星的外层急剧膨胀，并因冷却而发出红色的光，而成为了一颗红巨星。
Roberto Silvotti of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples and his colleagues spotted the planet, a gaseous giant like Jupiter, circling a star called V 391 Pegasi.
意大利国家天体物理研究所（National Institutefor Astrophysics）（在那不勒斯（in Naples））的罗伯特•斯沃迪（Roberto Silvotti）与其同事发现了这颗像木星般的巨大气化行星。 它所环绕的恒星被命名为V 391Pegasi。
The researchers did this using a small part of the giant Hale telescope in California, with which they examined a star called HR 8799 in the constellation of Pegasus.
研究人员利用以下两者进行实验——加利福尼亚州巨大海尔望远镜的一小部分，以及他们调查过的天马座hr 8799恒星。
Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (980 degrees Celsius).
这颗巨大的行星大小同木星相当，被称作TrES-2b，运行轨道距离其恒星只有大约300万英里，表面温度达华氏1800度（摄氏980度）。
Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1, 800 degrees Fahrenheit (980 degrees Celsius).
这颗巨大的行星大小同木星相当，被称作TrES - 2b，运行轨道距离其恒星只有大约300万英里，表面温度达华氏1800度(摄氏980度)。
From the spin rate of the parent star, which is faster than it should be, scientists think the red giant already has consumed some of HIP 13044b's sisters.
这颗红巨星的旋转速度要比正常情况下要快，基于这个现象，科学家们认为这颗红巨星已经形成了HIP 10044b的其他姐妹行星。
Watching TrES-2b and its star, Kepler detected only the slightest such dimming and brightening, though enough to ascertain that a Jupiter-size gas giant was the cause.
开普勒在观察TrES - 2b和它的恒星时，只发现了很轻微的光线明暗变化，不过足以确定一颗跟木星体积相当的巨大气体球就是原因所在。
Its star is a red giant - a massive star near the end of its life. It is too dim to see in the night sky from Earth without a telescope.
Gliese 581是一颗已经接近生命终点的红巨星，星光十分暗淡，在没有天文望远镜的情况下，从夜空中根本无法看到。
A giant replica dung beetle was the star attraction of the ceremony, watched by an estimated 500million people.
庆典上最惹眼的莫非一只巨大的假蜣螂(屎壳郎)，估计当时有5亿人关注到了它。
When a blue giant star in the Tarantula region went supernova, seen on the night of February 23, 1987, it captured the attention of astronomers worldwide.
1987年2月23日晚，当蜘蛛星云区域内的一颗蓝巨星被观测到已成了超新星时，它引起全世界天文学家的关注。
The bigger a star is, the more rapidly it burns up its fuel, and the quicker it becomes a bloated red giant.
那么这颗恒星越大，其消耗能量的速度就越高，从而其变成一个膨胀红巨星的速度则越快。
Ionized molecular hydrogen can be seen evaporating from the tips of these star-forming columns of gas and dust, under pressure of ultraviolet light from the nebula's central blue giant stars.
在来自星云中心蓝巨星紫外线辐射的压力下，这些由气体和尘埃组成的恒星形成区域尖端的电离氢分子将不复存在。
That's because planets bound to a parent star would only reflect the survivors, not how many gas giant planets actually formed.
目前与恒星相伴的行星都是那场角力中的幸存者，并不能说明实际上有多少气态巨行星形成。
Current theories suggest two ways in which a gaseous, dusty ring around a young star can form into gas-giant planets.
现有的理论提出了两条途径来解释在一个由气体尘埃环围绕的年轻恒星周围如何形成气体巨型行星。
One explanation is that HIP 13044 swallowed its inner planets during the red giant phase, which would make the star spin more quickly.
一种解释是HIP 13044在红巨星阶段吞噬了它的一些带内行星，这可能使它自转得更快。
HR 8799e's relative closeness to its star makes it difficult to explain how both it and its gas-giant companions formed.
HR 8799e与其恒星相对较近的距离使得人们很难解释它以及其它三颗气态巨星的成因。
The planet orbiting this star is very different -- with a mass of only about 12 Earths it is likely to be a giant rocky planet: a so-called "super-Earth."
环绕这颗恒星公转的行星与众不同——其质量仅约为12 颗地球，可能是一颗巨星岩石行星：所谓的“超级地球”。
The giant star-forming region is about 1, 000 light-years across.
这块由巨星组成的区域横跨约一千光年。
Just days after space shuttle astronauts repaired the Hubble space Telescope in mid December, the giant lens focused on a star cluster at the edge of the universe - and photographed heaven.
仅在航天飞机的宇航员于12月中旬修复哈勃太空望远镜几天之后，特大镜头聚焦于宇宙边缘的一个星团——拍摄到了天国。
Just days after space shuttle astronauts repaired the Hubble space Telescope in mid December, the giant lens focused on a star cluster at the edge of the universe - and photographed heaven.
仅在航天飞机的宇航员于12月中旬修复哈勃太空望远镜几天之后，特大镜头聚焦于宇宙边缘的一个星团——拍摄到了天国。
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