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It's so far away...
由于實在太遠(yuǎn)
...it is burned out, we wouldn't know about it for eight minutes
如果太陽熄滅了，8分鐘后我們才會知道
It's so Big, you could fit one million Earths inside it
太陽大到可以裝下100萬顆地球
But who needs number? we've got the real thing
誰需要這些數(shù)字呢，我們看到了它的真面目
We see it every day, a familiar face in our sky
我們每天看到太陽掛在天空的熟悉面孔
Now, up close, it's unrecognizable.
現(xiàn)在近觀它，又陌生起來
A turbulent sea of incandescent gas
由炙熱氣體形成的洶涌大海
The thermometer pushes 10,000 degrees
表面溫度超過1萬度（5000°C）
can't imagine how hot the core is ,could be tens of millions of degrees
難以置信的是它的核心溫度則可以到數(shù)千萬度
Hot enough to transform millions of tons of matter
這里熱到足以能夠
...into energy every second
每秒鐘把數(shù)百萬噸物質(zhì)轉(zhuǎn)化成能量
More than all the energy ever made by mankind
超過人類有史以來產(chǎn)生的所有能量
Dwarfing the power of all the nuclear weapons on Earth.
地球上所有的核武器對于它都是小巫見大巫
Back home, we use this energy for light and heat
在地球，這些能量是我們利用的光和熱
But up close, there's nothing comforting about the Sun.
近距離觀看時，卻是令人感到不安
Its electrical and magnetic forces erupt in giant molten gas loops.
太陽的電磁活動迸發(fā)出巨大的炙熱氣體環(huán)狀物（日珥）
Some are larger than a dozen Earths
有的足有一打地球那么大
More powerful than 10 million volcanoes.
釋放的能量超過一千萬個火山
And when they burst through they expose cooler layers below...
當(dāng)它噴發(fā)的時候，就會露出下面溫度較低的部分
...making sunspots.
形成太陽黑子
A fraction cooler than their surrounding, sunspots look black...
太陽黑子比周圍溫度低一些，所以看起來是黑的
...But they're hotter than anything on Earth.
但仍比地球任何東西都熱
And massive up to 20 times the size of Earth.
太陽黑子同樣巨大，超過地球大小的20倍
But one day, all this will stop
但是總有一天，這一切都會結(jié)束
The Sun's fuel will be spent.
太陽的燃料會耗盡
And when it dies, the Earth will follow
太陽死去，地球也會隨之死亡
