2021考研英语阅读材料：惊现“三体”行星”

Our Sun is a lone wolf of a star, but out there in the wider Universe, stars are often locked in adance with others, orbiting a mutual centre of gravity.

我们的太阳是一颗独狼恒星。但是在广袤的宇宙，恒星通常与其他星球锁在一起，围绕一个相互的重力中心旋转。

In one such triple-star system, astronomers have just found an exoplanet.

在一个这样的三星系统中，天文学家刚发现了一颗系外行星。

It has the rather catchy name LTT 1445Ab, as it orbits the primary star of three red dwarfsthat constitute the system LTT 1445, located around 22.5 light-years away.

这颗星球有个很惹眼的名字：LTT1445Ab。因为它围绕着组成LTT1445系统的三颗红矮星构成的主恒星旋转，距离地球约22.5光年。

"If you're standing on the surface of that planet, there are three suns in the sky, but two ofthem are pretty far away and small-looking," astronomer Jennifer Winters of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told New Scientist.

哈佛-史密森尼天体物理中心的天文学家詹妮弗·温特斯说，“如果你站在那颗星球的表面，就能看到天空中有三个太阳。但是其中的两个离得很远，看起来很小。”

"They're like two red, ominous eyes in the sky."

“他们就像天空中两只红色的不祥眼睛。”

Her team's research has been submitted to The Astronomical Journal, so we can expect it to bepeer-reviewed soon.

她团队的研究已经提交给了《天文学期刊》。因此应该很快就可以进行同行评议了。