EDWARD GREEN: Yes, it 's very bright.

爱德华·格林：是的，颜色太艳。

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Though it was only a few days after " Clear and Bright Festival" the April sun was already very strong. It scorched Old Tong Bao' s spine like a basin of fire.

“清明”节后的太阳已经很有力量，老通宝背脊上热烘烘地，像背着一盆火。

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EDWARD GREEN: Yes, it "s very bright."

爱德华·格林：是的，颜色太艳。

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We never know when exactly it's going to get very bright and this time it was kind enough to do just that when we had a very large number of telescopes trained on it.

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"It's remarkable how much your attention is drawn when two very bright objects come together in the sky, " he explains.

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