We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours.

我们可以用一千种简单的试验(或者任何自然事实)来体验我们的生活，例如，是同一个太阳，既照着我的大豆成长，也同时照亮很多像我们的地球这样的星球。

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The comet currently headed for the sun may be part of the so-called Kreutz group of comets, which are known for having orbits that bring them within a few hundred thousand miles of the sun.

这颗冲向太阳的彗星可能是所谓的克鲁兹彗星家族的一员，这个彗星家族以其特殊的运行轨道而闻名于世，该轨道会将其带入太阳附近。

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Although the nebula that spawned the sun 4.6 billion years ago is long gone, most of the thousand or so stars born in the same cluster should have survived.

尽管46亿年前孕育出太阳的星云早已消散，但是大多数同样诞生于那一星云的恒星应该幸存了下来。

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They are travelling one hundred thousand kilometers an hour around the sun.

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This would be like a pulsar, but with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the sun's, and about a thousand times stronger than the already massive fields that are inferred for ordinary pulsars.

ECONOMIST: Pulsars

Ms. COLLINS: (Singing) As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, are touched with all the radiance as a sudden sun discloses, for the people hear us singing: bread and roses, bread and roses.

NPR: Judy Collins, From Both Sides Now

Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.

FORBES: Space Architecture And View Condos In Low Earth Orbit