"The ring itself is a fascinating object worthy of study because it is forming stars at a very high rate," Kartik Sheth, an astronomer at NASA's Spitzer Science Center, said in a press release.

“星环本身就让人兴奋，是很值得研究的事物，因为它的星体分布的密度非常高。”美国宇航局的斯皮策科学中心天文学家Kartik Sheth在记者会上说。

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Bora Bora is a tall, high green mountain surrounded by a ring of small 16 islets called Motus.

波拉波拉山是一座高耸、挺拔、苍翠的山脉，四周环绕着茅图斯小群岛。

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Sharing a hillside with high-rise apartment dwellers, children dance at a shop in one of the squatter communities that ring Caracas, a city of three million.

和超高层公寓居民共用一个山坡的孩子们在一家商店里跳舞。这是环绕有300万人口加拉加斯市的一个棚户区。

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