After what seemed an age the "cosmic light show" faded and once more we lay in quiet companionship under the vaulted canopy of the night sky.

似乎过了很久，“宇宙之光演出”才渐渐谢幕。 我们又静静躺着，相互为伴，头顶夜空苍穹。

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Because of its huge mass, the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass, causing light to bend around it.

由于其巨大的质量，这个星系团相当于一个宇宙放大镜，使光线在它的四周弯曲。

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They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth.

它们是迄今为止科学家探测到的最大、最遥远的物体：一条巨大的宇宙云带，距离地球约150亿光年。

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