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The hemoglobin in your blood, when you bleed and it's red, that red color is due to oxygen, and is due to iron that is in your blood that was created in a supernova.
你身體中的血色素在你流血時會顯現出紅色，那是因為血液中充滿了氧元素和鐵元素，正是“超新星”造就了這些元素。
The gold on your wedding ring is created in a supernova.
你的結婚戒指中的黃金是由“超新星”產生的。
Calcium in your bones was created in a supernova.
你骨頭中的鈣也是由“超新星”產生的。
And so we learn so much about the universe itself when these stars die.
我們已經了解了不少宇宙中恒星死亡時的事情。
Hubble is giving scientists the ultimate learning experience by monitoring one particular star, Eta Carina, back in the Carina Nebula.
哈勃現在正在科學家們提供最后的學習機會，通過觀測一個特殊的恒星船底座星云7號星。
This is a star that is a bit of a mystery.
這顆恒星有點神秘。
It appears to have about a hundred times the mass of the sun and that is the upper limit.
它的質量大概是太陽的100倍，這是恒星質量的上限。
The more massive a star is, the hotter it is, and the surface of the star is so hot, that it can't even hold its own gas.
恒星質量越大，其溫度也越高，這顆恒星的表面溫度高到甚至其難以掌控自身的氣體。
It's constantly blowing off a stream of gas.
它不斷的爆出氣體流。
For over a decade, Hubble creates a series of photos of Eta Carina.
10多年來，哈勃拍攝了一系列關于船底座7號星的圖片。
The photos show two enormous lobes of superheated gas erupting from the surface.
圖片顯示2個巨大的超高溫氣體流由恒星的表面噴射而出。
Although Eta Carina is a young star, its huge mass makes it unstable.
雖然船底座7號星是一顆年輕的恒星，但是它巨大的質量使其非常不穩定。
This star will not survive for long.
這顆恒星不會存在太久了。
Eta Carina is one of the very few stars that we can point at and say, "Yeah, that one's gonna go."
船底座7號是極少數我們能指著它說：“啊，這顆恒星快要完了。”
When Eta Carina goes, it will become one of the most devastating supernovae ever recorded.
當船底座7號爆滅時，它會成為有史以來最具破壞性的“超新星”之一。
When the light from the explosion reaches us, it will be an extraordinary sight.
當我們看到它爆炸的光的時候，那將是一種極其特別的景象。
It will be almost as bright as the full moon.
它的亮度將和滿月的亮度差不多。
All that light concentrated into a point of light in our sky.
它的爆炸光將會在天空匯集成一個小亮點。
It will cast shadows at night.
如果在夜間，它的光亮會投射出影子。
The fireworks will begin when the star runs out of fuel.
這場煙火大戲將會在它耗盡了自身能量后發生。
The gigantic star will destroy itself in just a few seconds.
這顆巨型恒星將會在幾秒內被毀滅。
