Yeah, there's a new moon, so it's the perfect night to observe faint star clusters.

新月，所以今晚特别适合观测微弱的星团。

And Heck says it's our best source of presolar stardust-meaning stardust older than the solar system and the sun itself.

赫克说这有关前太阳系星团的最佳资料，前太阳系星团指比太阳系和太阳本身更古老的星团。

Or are planets around stars in clusters for some reason just harder to spot?

还说出于某种原因，围绕星团的行星很难被发现？

It's a very special object: it's actually not just a cluster, but a collision of two clusters.

它实际上不个星团，而两个星团的碰撞。

He saw clusters of stars, brightly colored nebulas, even entire galaxies!

他看了无数星团，明亮的星云，甚至还看了整个银河！

They show about 100,000 star clusters and millions, or even billions, of individual stars.

它们展示了大约10万个星团和数百万甚至数十亿颗恒星。

The fixed stars form sets or groups, to which names have been given.

这些恒星可以构成星群或星团, 而它们也都有自己的名称。

Globular clusters were a good clue that there was more going on.

球状星团个很好的线索，说明还有更多的秘密等待着我们去发掘。

To say it was powerful would be an understatement.

发讯号至M13星团， 使用位於波多黎各直径300公尺的阿雷西博天文台。

Mega billions of light years of the cosmic abyss still define the super clusters at this moment in time.

数十亿光年的宇宙深渊仍然定义了此时此刻的超级星团。

The discovery of planetary material thus raises more questions. Are star clusters indeed inhospitable to planets?

行星物质发现也因此产生了许多问题。星团确实不适合行星吗？

In the bull's shoulder you can find the Pleiades, a bright star cluster recognized by stargazers for thousands of years.

在牛的肩膀处你可以找昂宿星团，这个明亮的星团被观星者观察了几千年。

If galaxies were high school lunchrooms, the star cluster named HVGC-1 would be a social pariah.

如果说银河系校食堂，HUGC-1 星团就像个餐厅里不受欢迎的生。

Optical light images show the two clusters next to each other.

光图像显示这两个星团相邻。

This, speculates Dr Warrant, is because they were still able to spot the cluster that forms the Milky Way.

通过试验Warrant, 博士推测，这因为蜣螂还能认出银河系形成的星团。

This unpopular cluster has been kicked out of its galaxy and forced to wander the cosmos alone.

遭排斥的HUGC-1星团被星系拒之门外，好孤独地在宇宙中徘徊。

So scientists had been studying and modeling the distribution of matter in the cluster long before the supernova.

因此家早在这颗超新星出现之前就已经研究和模拟了物质在这个星团中的分布。

In Greek mythology the Pleiades represented the seven daughters of Pleione, an ocean nymph and protecter of sailors.

在希腊神话中，昂宿星团代表着普莱恩的七个女儿，海洋女神，以及水手们的保护者。

In addition, Scott included another layer of signposts: pulsars in globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way.

此外，斯考特还查了另层路标：绕行银河系的球状星团里的脉冲星。

Astronomers identified the silicon-rich rocky material by training the Hubble Space Telescope on the nearby Hyades star cluster.

天文家通过培训哈勃望太空远镜观测附近的毕宿星团来确认富含硅元素的岩石物质。