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- The winter solstice events at Maeshowe demonstrate
- 梅萧韦古墓葬的冬至事件
- an intimate and precise knowledge of
- 展现了古人
- the sun's movements through the sky.
- 对太阳运行轨迹的精确了解
- It was the first step on ourjourney to understand
- 若说了解太阳及太阳对我们的诸多影响
- the sun and its many effects on us.
- 是一趟旅程,那么这是第一步
- To complete that journey we've had to travel to
- 要完成这趟旅程
- the furthest depths of space
- 我们必须远赴太空的最深处
- and to the heart of the smallest atom.
- 及探入最小原子的核心
- And with every closer look the sun has always surprised us.
- 每一次近距离观察太阳,就多一次惊喜
- To our ancestors,
- 对我们的祖先而言
- its power was its reliability.
- 太阳的力量代表它的恒定
- Always on time. Never changing.
- 永不迟到,永不改变
- But the reality is proving to be very different.
- 但事实则大不相同
- Most people think of the sun as quite a boring,
- 大多数人都认为太阳是个无聊
- constant sort of thing,but in fact it's not at all,
- 恒常的东西
- it's changing all the time,
- 事实不然,它无时无刻不在变化
- and if you look you can see those changes on a matter
- 只要仔细观察就会发现
- of minutes or hours.
- 改变往往发生在几分钟或几小时内
- And it's far from static and boring,
- 太阳绝对不是一个静止或无聊的东西
- it, it's changing and it's got a life of its own.
- 太阳时时刻刻都在变化,而且自有其生命力
- Modern solar observatories magnify and filter the sun's light,
- 现代太阳观测站能放大及过滤日光
- to get past the constant glare,
- 穿透太阳发出的眩光
- and give a clear view of the surface.
- 让我们清楚看到太阳表面
- This is the actual face of the sun.
- 这才是太阳的真面目
- It is turbulent and boiling.
- 动荡、沸腾
- Never the same from one second to the next the surface bubbles
- 瞬息万变
- like a giant bowl of porridge.
- 太阳表面像一大碗粥般地冒着泡泡
- Each bubble is a 1000 miles across.
- 每个泡泡的直径都有一千哩
- The heat and light brought to the surface
- 太阳表面的温度因光和热
- raises its temperature to 6000 degrees centigrade.
- 而升高至摄氏六千度
- Enough to vaporise solid rock.
- 连岩石都能汽化
- And the sun is huge.
- 太阳体积庞大
- You could fit the Earth inside it a million times over.
- 足以容纳一百万个地球
- Periodically huge explosions rip through the surface,
- 大规模的爆炸,会定期撕裂太阳表面
- releasing the energy of a billion atomic bombs in seconds.
- 在数秒中内释放相当于十亿颗原子弹的能量
- All this is on the surface.
- 这一切都发生在太阳表面
- To understand the sun we must know what is going on deep inside.
- 想要了解太阳就必须厘清其深处所发生的事情
- That is where the power is generated.
- 太阳的力量来自内部
- So for centuries scientists have been devising ways
- 数世纪以来,科学家为了探索太阳的核心
- to probe the heart of the sun.
- 想出许多方法
- Some of them have been complex and some of them are very simple.
- 有的方法十分复杂,有的则十分简单
- And the first step is to figure out just how powerful the sun is.
- 第一步是搞清楚,太阳的力量究竟有多大
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本节目将带领大家探索谜样的太阳,深入了解太阳对我们过去、现在、未来生活的重要性。也探讨了太阳如何影响地球的重大科学发现,它每秒钟所释放的能量足够人类使用百万年。它仍是我们未来唯一的希望。
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