The observatory was launched into orbit in 1990.

该天文望远镜于 1990 年发射进入轨道。

Scientists these days are able to see the photosphere in fantastic detail using powerful telescopes.

科学家现在可以用先进的天文望远镜来观测光球层细而神奇的变化。

And it gets worse. There are maybe 100 billion galaxies detectable by our telescopes.

然而更令人惊叹的是，通过天文望远镜我们可以探测到大约一千亿个的星系。

Also, I usually recommend getting binoculars before a telescope.

另外，我通常建议在买天文望远镜之前先买个双筒望远镜。

But Mauna Kea is also home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes.

但是莫纳克亚山也是世上一些功能最强大的天文望远镜的集中地。

Opposition to telescopes on Mauna Kea is nothing new.

反对在莫纳克亚山建造天文望远镜已经不是什么新鲜事了。

It leases the area to the University of Hawaii for telescopes and observatories.

政府将该地区租给夏威夷大学用做建造望远镜和天文台。

Thank Einstein. And Kepler—the space telescope, not Johannes.

多亏了爱因斯坦。 还有天文望远镜开普勒，不是德国那位天文学家。

A larger telescope can gather fainter signals and produce sharper images.

一个更大的天文望远镜能收集更的信号，并成更清晰的照片。

I don't have plans which is why I booked time on the big telescope that night.

我之所以在情人节晚上预定了天文望远镜正是因为我那天清闲。

The Arecibo Observatory Telescope in Puerto Rico was one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

波多黎各的阿雷西博天文台望远镜曾是世上最强大的望远镜之一。

If the dinosaurs had invented telescopes, they would have seen some lava spewed from the Moon's surface.

如果恐龙发明了天文望远镜的话，他们可能就会看到从月球表面喷涌出的岩浆。

You know this reminds me of like the first time I saw the stars with the telescope. Right?

这让我想起了我第一次用天文望远镜看星星的感觉。是吧？

But in this latest study, researchers used data collected by a powerful camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

但是在最近的研究中，研究人员们使用了哈勃天文望远镜上安装的超级相机采集到的数据。

Astronomers using NASA's powerful Kepler space telescope say they've identified two planets that appear capable of supporting life.

使用美国航空局强大的开普勒太空望远镜的天文学家称，现已确认能支持命存在的两颗行星。

There's a third aspect to telescopes that's very important, beyond resolution and making faint things easier to see.

对于天文望远镜，除了解析度和让暗淡的物体更容易被看到外，还有第三个非常重要的方面。

In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is not the only way of understanding the world.

他们渴望建造更大的天文望远镜，却忘记了科学不是理解世的唯一途径。

One is a bigger system of telescopes, either on the ground or in orbit, to give notice of a threat.

一是要扩大天文望远镜系统，地面上也好，空间轨道上也好，只要能对威胁起到预警作用。

In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is the only way of understanding the world.

他们渴望建造更大的天文望远镜，却忘记了科学不是理解世的唯一途径。

But now I talk and write (and make videos) about astronomy, and relegate my viewing to my personal backyard telescope.

不过现在我做关于天文学的演讲、写作（以及视频制作），我仅仅使用我家后院的望远镜进行天文学观测了。