The light is dying, for one thing, as Earth’s orbit around the sun and tilt on its axis combine to carry us in this hemisphere further away from receiving the sun’s rays most directly.

光线也在是失去活力，首先，由于地球绕着太阳的轨道，由于地球倾斜的轴线与我们所处的北半球相结合，最直接从太阳所接收到的光线，就愈为遥远。

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This means the northern and southern hemispheres will sometimes point toward or away from the sun depending on the time of year, varying the amount of light they receive and causing the seasons.

这意味着南半球和北半球会在一年的不同时间段朝向太阳或背向太阳，引起接受的光照量的变化和并产生季节变化。

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It is around 16,000 light-years away from the earth, about 35 times as large as our sun.(See photo)

这颗正在衰亡的恒星船底座V385(图中红圈内白点)距地球16000光年，是银河系最大的天体之一，是太阳的35倍大。

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Viewed from ten light-years away, the sun's side-to-side astrometric wobble due to the effect of the earth is just one millionth of an arcsecond, or a twentieth of the tiniest angle that the Keck will be able to measure.

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The abundance of such compounds tells us that the sun grew up less than 1 light year away from a massive star that exploded.

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