The observatory was launched into orbit in 1990.

该天文望远镜于 1990 年发射进入轨道。

A small but vocal group of Hawaiians and environmentalists have long viewed their presence as disrespect for sacred land and a painful reminder of the occupation of what was once a sovereign nation.

以来，少数夏威夷人和环保主义者把那些天文望远镜看作对那片神圣土地的亵渎，并且会使人们想起这个曾经的主权国家被占领的惨痛回忆。

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微而神奇的变化。

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

然而更令人惊叹的，通过天文望远镜我们可以探测到大约千亿个的星系。

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

个更大的天文望远镜能收集更加微弱的信号，并生成更加清晰的照片。

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，不德国那位天文学家。

Using bigger eyes–like the giant space telescope named Hubble, we've seen images in which every speck is its own galaxy, the farthest of which is more than 13 billion light years away, almost the oldest light we can see.

用" 更大" 的眼睛——比如那个名为 Hubble 的巨大的天文望远镜，我们从照片中已经能够看到每个非常小的区域其所在的星系，其中最远的距离我们超过130亿光年，这大概就我们所能看到的最古老的光了。

At the time Evans had a ten-inch telescope a very respectable size for amateur stargazing but hardly the sort of thing with which to do serious cosmology and he was proposing to find one of the universe's rarer phenomena.

当时，埃文斯只有台5厘米的天文望远镜这供业余观星之用倒差不多，但用那玩意儿来搞严肃的宇宙研究还远远不够他却提出要寻找宇宙比较稀罕的现象。

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

为了限制莫纳克亚山上的天文望远镜数量，旧的天文望远镜在寿命终结后会被拆除，其原址也会恢复自然状态。

The researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China analyzed over 5 million stellar spectra obtained from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in North China's Hebei Province.

中国国家天文台的研究人员分析了 500 万来自中国北方河北省的大天区面积多目标光纤光谱天文望远镜（英文缩写LAMOST）的恒星光谱。

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，却忘记了科学不理解世界的唯途径。

A night like this, there are about 2,500 stars visible to the naked eye, but when we started building telescopes instead of temples, we discovered that there are billions more.

像这样的夜晚，我们可以用肉眼看到大约 2500 颗星星，而当我们透过天文望远镜观看夜空时，发现了几十亿颗大大小小的星星。

Tian Cairang, an official with the Lenghu industrial park, said in recent years, several astronomical telescope projects have been launched at the Lenghu astronomical observatory base.

冷湖工业园区官员田才让说，近年来，冷湖天文台基地启动了几个天文望远镜项目。

So to study stellar origins, scientists use telescopes that allow them to see galaxies that are so far away, they're essentially looking back in time.

所以为了研究它们的起源，科学家们使用了天文望远镜观测到距离很远的星系，他们必须要追忆下过往的岁月。

While standing on his balcony, Wang observes various planets thousands of light-years away with an astronomical telescope and takes pictures of them.

王至璞站在阳台上，用天文望远镜观察着数千光年之外的各大行星，并拍下它们的照片。

Today, the land belongs to the state government. It leases the area to the University of Hawaii for telescopes and observatories.

今天，这片土地属于州政府。政府将该地区租给夏威夷大学做望远镜和天文台之用。

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

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。

The image that you see there was assembled by the Hubble Space Telescope over a span of three months.

大家看见的这幅图像，由哈勃天文望远镜耗时三个月收集的。

Scientists back on Earth will monitor the collision using satellite imagery and ground base telescopes to see how much the moonlet changes course.

地球上的科学家将通过卫星图像和地面天文望远镜对撞击进行观测，掌握卫星偏离轨道的幅度。