研究表明，銀河系的形狀像薯片

研究表明，銀河系的形狀像品客薯片

Looks like we live in a giant Pringle.

看起來我們住在一個巨大的品客里。

According to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip.

根據(jù)一種新的銀河系三維模型，我們的銀河系是扭曲的，形狀像流行的薯片品牌。

“I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle,” Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map, told NBC News.

俄亥俄州立大學(xué)的天文學(xué)家RadekPoleski在接受NBC新聞的采訪時說：“我想說，它的形狀像品客薯片。”

To make the map, astronomers looked at the Milky Way’s bright, pulsing stars called cepheids, which burn up to 10,000 times more brightly than the sun.

為了繪制這幅地圖，天文學(xué)家們觀察了銀河系中明亮的脈動恒星，這些恒星被稱為造父變星，其亮度是太陽的1萬倍。

Using a high-tech telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the researchers pinpointed the location of more than 2,400 stars to create their model.

利用智利拉斯坎帕納斯天文臺的高科技望遠(yuǎn)鏡，研究人員精確定位了2400多顆恒星的位置，建立了他們的模型。

Previously, astronomers were forced to rely on measurements of other galaxies to infer the size of the Milky Way, and assumed it was shaped like a flat disk.

以前，天文學(xué)家被迫依靠對其他星系的測量來推斷銀河系的大小，并假設(shè)它的形狀像一個扁平的圓盤。

The study was published in the journal Science Aug. 2.

這項研究發(fā)表在8月2日的《科學(xué)》雜志上。