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人类首次拍摄到双星系统诞生,太美了

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For the first time, astronomers have obtained high-resolution images of a binary star system in the early stages of formation, and it's more beautiful than we ever expected.

人类首次拍摄到双星系统诞生,太美了

天文学家首次捕捉到了一个双星系统形成初期的高分辨率图像,比我们预计的更漂亮。

Here on Earth, we're used to orbiting a lone star. But out there in the wider Universe, most stars come with their own little star families, or stellar systems, where two or more stars are gravitationally bound to each other.

我们在地球上习惯了围绕一颗孤星运转,但在更广阔的宇宙里,大多数恒星都有自己的小恒星系,或恒星系统,其中会有两颗或两颗以上的恒星因引力而相互束缚。

The [BHB2007] 11 binary shown in these latest images is located at least 600 light-years away from us in the Pipe Nebula, a dark cloud of interstellar dust and gas that's given rise to an entire cluster of stars, including this baby binary.

最新图像中的[BHB2007] 11双星距离我们至少600光年,位于烟斗星云,是一团由星际尘埃和气体组成的暗云,形成了一个完整的星团,其中就包括这对新生双星。

When stars are being born, they are enveloped by a swirl of matter known as the circumstellar disk. Throw more than one star into the mix, and the shape of that disk is bound to get complicated, as mass moves from the surrounding material and falls into the young stars.

恒星诞生时被一种叫做环星盘的环状物包围。不只一颗恒星混合在一起,当质量从周围物质移进新生恒星时圆盘的形状一定会变得复杂。

Astronomers had already seen the rough outline of the puzzling structures surrounding [BHB2007] 11, but this latest discovery allowed them to peer within, revealing the intricate network of gas and dust filaments dancing around the two bright dots.

天文学家已经看到了[BHB2007] 11周围令人费解的结构的大致轮廓,但这一最新发现让他们得以窥探内部,展示了在两个亮点周围舞动的复杂的气体和尘埃细丝网络。

To attain such high-resolution data, the international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), the massive array of 66 antennas located in Chile.

为了获得如此高分辨率的数据,这个由德国马克斯-普朗克太空物理学研究所的研究员领导的国际天文学家团队利用了智利的ALMA阵列(阿塔卡玛大型毫米/亚毫米波天线阵),是由66根天线组成的庞大阵列。

Not only does each star have its own circumstellar disk, but the pair is also surrounded by a circum-binary disk that's slowly but surely being accreted into their respective disks through an intricate network of dust filaments.

每颗恒星不仅有自己的环星盘,而且这对恒星周围也有双星环星盘,缓慢但平稳地通过一个复杂的尘埃丝网络被吸进它们各自的圆盘内。