Co-existing around and amongst all this, researchers are coming to realize, is a collapsing region of stars and gas as big or larger than our galaxy.

研究者们逐渐开始意识到，这些周边以及内部的共同存在的物质，是一个和我们的星系一样大，甚至更大的，星星与气体的崩塌区域。

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Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars.

这反映了附近恒星的光热，2170星系是由其他蓝色反射星云，紧凑的红色发光区域，以及在模糊的背景下对恒星尘埃的飘带组成。

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Resembling a huge paw print, the Cat's paw Nebula is a star-formation region, with stars of close to 10 solar masses produced there in the past several million years.

猫掌星云看起来就像一个巨大的爪印，它是恒星形成区域，近几百万年间在猫掌星云里诞生的恒星具有近10个太阳的质量。

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Astrometry, as the process of measuring stellar positions is known, used to be done by taking pictures of a particular region of the sky and then measuring the relative positions of the stars.

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They contain thousands to millions of stars packed into a region of space just a few tens of light-years across.

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