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Hey there! Welcome to Life Noggin.
大家好！欢迎来到脑洞大开的生命奇想。
Every day, we're learning more and more about space and what's out there.
我们关于太空的知识与日俱增。
I'm still hoping we find aliens one day. I think, we are so close.
我仍然希望有一天我们能发现外星人。我想，我们很接近了。
But until then, we should try and learn more about what we know is already in our cosmic backyard.
但在那之前，我们应该试着去多了解我们的宇宙后院中已知的东西。
That big, scary thing you humans call the Sun seems like it could be pretty important. So, here is my question.
那个你们人类称之为太阳的，又大又可怕的东西似乎很重要。我的问题是：
Should we send out a probe and go explore it? Well first off, Let's do an introduction.
我们应该发射探测器去探索它吗？首先，我们简要介绍一下情况。
The Sun may look like a giant, flaming cheese puff, but it's actually a star that's made of extremely hot ionized gas called plasma.
太阳看起来像一个巨大的，燃烧的奶酪泡，但它实际上是一颗恒星，由一种叫做等离子体的极热电离气体构成。
It's so warm that the temperature at the Sun's core can be around 15 million degrees Celsius!
它温度很高，核心的温度可以达到1500万摄氏度！
That's almost as hot as my mixtape. I'm coming for you, Fred. Sorry, just a grudge I've been holding for a long time.
那几乎和我的混音带一样热了。我来找你了，弗雷德。对不起，我只是怀恨已久。
The Sun is not just super hot, but super big too! It's average diameter is around 1.39 million kilometers.
太阳不仅超级热，而且超级大！它的平均直径约为139万公里。
If you want to feel super small, that's about 109 times the diameter of Earth. But why should we try and further study the Sun?
想知道自己多渺小吗？太阳的直径大概是地球直径的109倍。但我们为什么要进一步研究太阳呢？
Well, some of the recent research from the National Academy of Sciences has a pretty compelling reason.
美国国家科学院最近的一些研究给出了一个很有说服力的理由。
According to their study, they estimated that without advanced warning, a huge solar storm could cause around 2 trillion dollars in damage across the United States alone, and it could lead to widespread power outages for a long period of time.
根据他们的研究，他们估计在没有预警的情况下，一场巨大的太阳风暴仅在美国就会造成大约2万亿美元的损失，并可能导致大面积停电很长一段时间。
If learning more about the Sun could potentially give us a way to warn ourselves, I'd say that's pretty important!
如果多了解太阳，有可能给我们提供一种自我警告的方法，我想说这是非常重要的！
Plus, studying the Sun can help scientists learn more about how stars work and it can even help us understand the rest of the Universe.
此外，研究太阳可以帮助科学家更多地了解恒星是如何运转的，甚至可以帮助我们了解宇宙的其他部分。
So are there plans of exploring the Sun any time soon? Yes, there are indeed! With their eyes set on later next year, NASA hopes to launch their Parker Solar Probe.
那么，近期是否有探索太阳的计划呢？有，确实有！美国国家航空和宇宙航行局希望在明年晚些时候发射他们的帕克太阳能探测器。
This probe will go closer to the Sun's surface than any spacecraft has before. Its mission will be to come as close as 6.2 million kilometers to the Sun.
这个探测器将比以往任何航天器都更接近太阳表面。它的任务是到达离太阳表面620万公里的地方。
That's within the orbit of Mercury! I bet the other Roman gods will be so jealous.
那已经在水星轨道内了！我敢打赌，其他的罗马神会嫉妒的。
On its journey, this space probe hopes to trace the flow of energy that warms and accelerates solar winds and the solar corona, explore what accelerates and transports energetic particles, and find out the structure and dynamics of the magnetic and plasma fields at the sources of solar wind.
在这次探测中，这个太空探测器计划能够追踪使太阳风和日冕变暖和加速的能量流，探索加速高能粒子运动和运输高能粒子的原因，并发现太阳风源磁场和等离子场的结构和动态。
It sounds like a lot. But with this information, scientists hope that they will be able to more accurately predict space weather that could have huge negative effects on Earth.
这些任务听起来好像很繁重。但是有了这些信息，科学家们有望能够更准确地预测可能对地球产生巨大负面影响的太空天气。
India also hopes to join in on the solar fun by launching their own satellite around 2019.
印度还希望在2019年左右发射自己的卫星，加入到太阳探索的行列。
Called the Aditya-L1 mission, they hope to provide observations of the Sun's Photosphere, Chromosphere, and corona.
该任务名为Aditya-L1，他们希望能观测到太阳的光球层、色球层和日冕。
They want to achieve a better understanding of the dynamical processes of the Sun and address outstanding issues in solar physics.
他们希望更好地了解太阳的动力学过程，并解决太阳物理学中的突出问题。
I wish both of these teams the best of luck on their missions! Because this stuff sounds really complicated.
我祝愿这两个团队顺利完成任务！因为这听起来很复杂。
The Sun is extremely important to our lives, but what effects would it have on your daily life and the Earth in general if it doubled in mass?
太阳对我们的生活非常重要，但如果它的质量翻倍，会对你的日常生活和地球有什么影响？
If you wanna know the answer, check out this video.
如果你想知道答案，看看这个视频。
If the Sun were twice as massive as it is now, Earth would fall out of the habitable zone… way out.
如果太阳的质量是现在的两倍，地球就会被挤出适居带。
First off, with more mass, the Sun's luminosity— the amount of energy and brightness it gives off — would increase exponentially.
首先，随着质量的增加，太阳的光度——它释放出的能量和亮度——将呈指数增长。
As always, my name is Blocko. This has been Life Noggin. Don't forget to keep on thinking!
我是宝高，这里是脑洞大开的生命奇想。思考不要停！
