Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the 1840s were scratches left by the grinder?

难道拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察空的哲学家在比19世纪40年代声称用罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星磨镜工留下的磨痕的人应受到更大的谴责吗？

What you're looking at is thousands of light years away, it's a planetary nebula, a giant cloud of gas that forms around an ancient star that hasn't yet exploded.

你正在看的千光年以外的一团行星状星，在尚未爆炸的古老恒星周围形成的巨大气体。

But sometimes nebulae do have sharp edges.

但有时星确实有锋利的边缘。

Spirals fascinated Smithson, and in his writings, he also mentioned their occurrence in galaxies and nebulae, in the structure of crystals, in the human ear, and in particular in Constantin Brancusi's famous portrait of James Joyce.

史密森对螺旋很着迷，在他的著作中，他也提到它们在星系和星中出，在晶体结构中出，在人耳中出，特别在康斯坦丁·布朗库西对詹姆斯·乔伊斯的著名肖像中。

However, this nebula started off more or less as a big shapeless blob.

但一开始这星或多或少更像个不成形的水滴。

On Monday, new images were released showing thousands of never seen before stars and this image of a newborn star from the Orion nebula.

星期一，一组新公布的照片展千颗前所未见的恒星，这张照片猎户座星的一颗新生恒星。

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

他看到无星团，明亮的星，甚至还看到整个银河！

Those older telescopes had to focus on nebulae, where the interstellar gas is most concentrated (a familiar one, visible through binoculars, is the gas cloud around the stars that make up Orion's sword).

以往的望远镜必须关注星，那里星际气体最集中之处。一个可用双筒望远镜看到的典例气体环绕恒星所形成的猎户座的”剑”。

If scientists had to read or write them out in full when they were discussing things like the molecules of water in a swimming pool or the distance to the Orion nebula, it would take up pages of books.

如果科学家在讨论游泳池里的水分子或距离猎户座星的距离等问题时，必须完整地把它们全部读出来或写出来，就会占用好几页书。

It doesn't have the beauty of a spiral galaxy or a nebula but to a scientist, to a cosmologist, it is the most beautiful picture ever taken, because it contains a vast amount of information about the very earliest history of our universe.

上面没有漂亮的螺旋星系，或星什么的，但对于研究宇宙的科学家来说，这张照片意义非凡，因为它详尽地记载着宇宙最早期的样貌。

Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material.

没有原子，就没有水，就没有空气，就没有岩石，就没有恒星和行星，就没有远方的团，就没有旋转的星，就没有使宇宙如此动人、如此具体的任何别的东西。

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通过注册 Curiosity Stream 和 Nebula，你就直接赋予我和其他几十位创作者制作独家内容的权利，否则我们可能没有机会制作这些内容。

It began with Professor Stephen Hawking describing the mysteries of the universe, then, in a burst of fireworks, the stadium was transformed into a nebula of gases in deep space – the big bang coming to Stratford.

开幕式一开始，史蒂芬·霍金讲述宇宙的神秘，一阵烟火点燃后，整个场馆变成外太空的星，宇宙大爆炸来到斯特拉特福。

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察空；到19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星说成磨镜工留下的磨痕。

If the sky is dark enough, you can see the nebula with just your eyes—but you can get a better look with binoculars or a telescope.

如果空够暗，肉眼就能看到星，不过用双筒镜或望远镜可以看的更清楚。

It's a presence that surrounds us always, from beginning to end, like a golden nebula looming over our lives even in the most mundane moments.

它自始至终都环绕在我们身边的实，像金色的星萦绕空，即使在最平凡的日子里也熠熠生辉。

In the night sky, plasma gives out light in the form of stars, nebulas, and even the auroras above the north and south poles.

在夜空中，等离子体以恒星、星甚至北极和南极上方的极光的形式发出光。

This swirling mass or " nebula" began to cool and, as it did, it condensed and separated into rings of particles.

这个巨大旋涡状物质或" 星" 开始冷却，而且，随着冷却开始聚集，并分开变成粒子环。

It is a nebula: a star-forming region where new stars are being born.

一个正在诞生新恒星的恒星形成区域。

Among the other four images were two that showed huge clouds of gas and dust – called nebulas.

在其他四张照片中，有两张展示巨大的气体和尘埃——也就星。