精英翻譯轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1645680
◎陳成良
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of the Horsehead Nebula, showing the "mane" in finer detail.
美國航太總署的韋伯太空望遠鏡揭示馬頭星雲一部分最清晰的圖像，更詳細地顯示了「鬃毛」。
The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, is 1,300 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
馬頭星雲位於獵戶座，距離我們1300光年。一光年將近6兆英里（9.7兆公里）。
Discovered over a century ago, its nickname derives from its striking appearance — a wispy pillar of gas and dust that resembles a horse rearing its head.
它被發現於一個多世紀前，綽號源自它那引人注目的外觀——一根渺小的氣體和塵埃柱，就像一匹昂起頭來的馬。
Webb’s latest infrared images released Monday captured the top of Horsehead in greater detail, illuminating clouds of chilly hydrogen molecules and soot-like chemicals. These glamour shots can help refine astronomers’ understanding of the nebula, which acts as a nursery for big stars to brew. (AP)
韋伯週一發佈的最新紅外線圖像，更詳細地捕捉到了馬頭星雲的頂部，照亮了寒冷的氫分子雲和類似煙塵的化學物質雲。這些精美照片可以幫助天文學家更深入了解這個星雲，這個星雲是大型恆星孕育的溫床。（美聯社）
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