exoplanets
美 [ˈeksəʊˈplænɪt] 
英
- n.【天】太阳系外行星
- 网络地外行星；外太阳行星；外系行星
词形变化
复数：exoplanets
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英英解释
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So far, only a handful of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have had their pictures taken directly.
到目前为止，我们仅仅获得了少数几个太阳系外行星的直接照片。
One of the main goals of planet hunting is to find exoplanets that have the characteristics of Earth and may consequently contain life.
行星搜寻的主要目标之一是找到具有地球特征，可能蕴含生命的地外行星。
More than 500 exoplanets have been discovered since then, yet it's not clear if even one of them might be habitable.
从那时起，超过500颗系外行星被发现。然而，至今仍没弄清，其中的甚至一颗行星可能适合居住。
Astronomers may have to consider the whole family of exoplanets in a system before determining if one is habitable or not.
天文学家可能需要重新考虑系外行星在其星系内的全部成员，然后才能确定该行星是否可居住。
It would be able to map the magnetic fields of stars and exoplanets (planets that circle stars outside the solar system).
它将能够测绘出行星和太阳系外行星（在太阳系以外围绕恒星公转的行星）的磁场图。
Most of these extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have been found using two different strategies.
这些太阳系外行星，或外星球大部分是通过两种不同的策略发现的。
When images showing three planets orbiting this star were obtained in 2008, it was the first time exoplanets had been directly observed.
当图案上显示2008年发现的3颗绕HR8799恒星转动的行星时，这是人类首次的系外行星的直接观察。
The number of confirmed exoplanets could rise even more dramatically if some of the candidates host multiple planets.
如果一些候选恒星有多个行星的话，已证实外行星的数量可能会显著增加。
In 2008, astronomers published the first direct images of exoplanets: tiny pinpricks of light close to a nearby star.
2008年，天文学家公布了人类第一次拍摄到的外部行星正像：一颗恒星近旁的一系列光点。
Finding these planets, known as exoplanets since they are located outside of our solar system, is difficult work.
这些行星叫系外行星，因为它们处于太阳系以外。要找到它们可不容易。
By 2110 we will have mapped the surfaces of the nearest exoplanets to see oceans, storms, continents, and volcanoes.
到2110年（thankstoMarkTwain），我们将绘出最近的系外行星表面上的海洋，风暴，大陆以及火山的地图。
The exoplanets found so far, however, can have far more eccentric orbits, moving in close and then far from their stars.
但目前发现的太阳系外行星中有很多都有过于偏心的轨道，在绕恒星运动时时近时远。
Astronomy is complicated enough as it is, so you might wonder why astronomers give exoplanets such confusing names.
你可能会想，天文学已经够复杂了，天文学家为什么还给系外行星取些把人搞晕的名字？
Experts report that there are already more than 700 exoplanets discovered, but only a few are in the habitable zone.
专家们说目前发现的700多颗外部行星中，只有少部分位于宜居带当中。
Planet hunters have so far netted nearly 500 so-called "exoplanets" outside our Solar System using various astronomical techniques.
行星猎人们迄今为止已经利用各种天文技术发现了近500颗太阳系以外的所谓“外部行星”。
The discoveries bring the total number of known extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, to 645.
这些发现使已知的太阳系外行星或系外行星总数量增至645个。
The problem is that most of the exoplanets detected to date, being gas giants, are too close to their stars to have been born there.
问题是，迄今观测到的大部分外部行星——气态巨行星，太靠近他们的起源恒星，不可能在那里诞生。
He thinks exoplanets are pulled towards the star by the dust and that when the dust runs out, the exoplanets stop moving.
他认为外部行星被尘埃拉向恒星，而当尘埃消耗殆尽时，外部行星停止运动。
So it only makes sense that our first interstellar journeys head toward exoplanets as close to Earth as possible.
因此，我们早期星际航行的合理目标应该是离地球尽可能近的一些系外行星。
How's this for an astronomical estimate? There are at least 50 billion exoplanets in our galaxy.
银河系中最少有500亿的外行星，这个天文学估算听起来怎么样？
Once Kepler's full mission is under way, it will be used to highlight rocky exoplanets that are good candidates for life.
一旦开普勒望远镜的全部任务开展起来，它将用于标示出那些适合生命繁衍的岩质系外行星。
It has been designed to spot exoplanets bigger than twice the size of the Earth.
这艘太空船是用以捕捉体积在地球两倍以上的系外行星的踪影。
For one thing, it's about 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest exoplanets yet discovered [source: Lemonick].
首先，它距地球20光年，属于离我们最近的系外行星之一[来源：Lemonick]。
In fact, HARPS alone has detected about two-thirds of all known exoplanets with masses less than that of Neptune.
事实上，大约三分之二的质量小于海王星的已知系外行星是由HARPS单独检测到的。
It should be capable of detecting exoplanets smaller than the Earth.
这架望远镜能够侦测到体积比地球还小的系外行星。
Dr Mayor told the meeting that the French mission, CoRoT, has now found 80 exoplanets.
梅尔博士在会议中称，法国的CoRoT号任务目前已经发现了80个外行星。
It could also help illuminate how giant, gaseous exoplanets often come to orbit their parent stars so closely.
还有助于说明，巨大的气态外部行星如何这么近地围绕起源恒星的轨道运行。
Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is organizing a conference in January 2012 to discuss planets and their dying stars.
宾州州立大学的“系外行星和适居世界中心”正在组织一项旨在讨论行星和其濒死恒星的会议，该会议将于2012年一月在波多黎各召开。
Another version has it that large and small protoplanetary discs of the same mass may form exoplanets differently.
另一种说法认为大小不一但质量相同的原行星盘就可能形成各自不同的系外行星。
"So far, with exoplanets, nature has been more creative than we are. "
“目前，系外行星的类型已经超出了我们的想象。”
How does it work, then, that we have found hundreds of exoplanets orbiting other stars?
那么我们发现了上百颗环绕其他恒星的地外行星又如何解释呢？
The finding demonstrates the diversity of exoplanets and the need for further study.
这个发现证实了行星的差异性并需要科学家进一步的研究。
These eccentric orbits can lead exoplanets to extreme heat waves.
这种偏心轨道会导致这些行星发生极其剧烈的热量波动。
Astronomers have found nearly 500 exoplanets - or planets outside our own solar system.
天文学家已经发现了将近500颗太阳系以外的地外行星。
Most of the more than 300 known exoplanets have been found based on indirect proof of their existence.
300多个太阳系外行星中的绝大多数都是通过间接证据发现的。
There's likely to be more than the 50 billion exoplanets Borucki describes.
博鲁克表示银河系中外行星的数量很有可能超过500亿。
Also, it needs more time to detect exoplanets that orbit further away from their stars.
同时，他们还需要更多的时间来观测那些离母星更远的外行星。
But some exoplanets are wondrously Earth-like.
但是其中有些系外行星与地球非常相似。
Where a perfect circle has an eccentricity value of zero, roughly half of exoplanets seen thus far have an eccentricity of 0. 25 or greater.
一般一个完美圆周的偏心值为0，而约有一半的系外行星的偏心值在0.25或者更高。
But these are the first images of planets outside the Solar System, or exoplanets as they are called.
但是这些是被称之为“系外行星”--太阳系以外行星的第一批图像。
