人類首次拍攝到雙星系統誕生，太美了

For the first time, astronomers have obtained high-resolution images of a binary star system in the early stages of formation, and it's more beautiful than we ever expected.

天文學家首次捕捉到了一個雙星系統形成初期的高分辨率圖像，比我們預計的更漂亮。

Here on Earth, we're used to orbiting a lone star. But out there in the wider Universe, most stars come with their own little star families, or stellar systems, where two or more stars are gravitationally bound to each other.

我們在地球上習慣了圍繞一顆孤星運轉，但在更廣闊的宇宙裏，大多數恆星都有自己的小恆星系，或恆星系統，其中會有兩顆或兩顆以上的恆星因引力而相互束縛。

The [BHB2007] 11 binary shown in these latest images is located at least 600 light-years away from us in the Pipe Nebula, a dark cloud of interstellar dust and gas that's given rise to an entire cluster of stars, including this baby binary.

最新圖像中的[BHB2007] 11雙星距離我們至少600光年，位於菸斗星雲，是一團由星際塵埃和氣體組成的暗雲，形成了一個完整的星團，其中就包括這對新生雙星。

When stars are being born, they are enveloped by a swirl of matter known as the circumstellar disk. Throw more than one star into the mix, and the shape of that disk is bound to get complicated, as mass moves from the surrounding material and falls into the young stars.

恆星誕生時被一種叫做環星盤的環狀物包圍。不只一顆恆星混合在一起，當質量從周圍物質移進新生恆星時圓盤的形狀一定會變得複雜。

Astronomers had already seen the rough outline of the puzzling structures surrounding [BHB2007] 11, but this latest discovery allowed them to peer within, revealing the intricate network of gas and dust filaments dancing around the two bright dots.

天文學家已經看到了[BHB2007] 11周圍令人費解的結構的大致輪廓，但這一最新發現讓他們得以窺探內部，展示了在兩個亮點周圍舞動的複雜的氣體和塵埃細絲網絡。

To attain such high-resolution data, the international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), the massive array of 66 antennas located in Chile.

爲了獲得如此高分辨率的數據，這個由德國馬克斯-普朗克太空物理學研究所的研究員領導的國際天文學家團隊利用了智利的ALMA陣列（阿塔卡瑪大型毫米/亞毫米波天線陣），是由66根天線組成的龐大陣列。

Not only does each star have its own circumstellar disk, but the pair is also surrounded by a circum-binary disk that's slowly but surely being accreted into their respective disks through an intricate network of dust filaments.

每顆恆星不僅有自己的環星盤，而且這對恆星周圍也有雙星環星盤，緩慢但平穩地通過一個複雜的塵埃絲網絡被吸進它們各自的圓盤內。