2025年天空将上演众多天文盛事
📖 逐句对照翻译
The world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse.
全世界将不得不等到2026年才能迎来下一次日全食。
However, the sky promises plenty of other big events in 2025.
然而，2025年的天空还预示着许多其他重大事件。
The new year starts off with a six-planet parade in January that people will be able to see for weeks.
新的一年以一月的一场六星连珠拉开序幕，人们将能在数周内观赏到这一景象。
The smallest planet, Mercury, will join the crowd for a seven-planet line in February.
最小的行星水星将在2月加入这一行列，形成七星连珠。
The Planetary Society’s chief scientist Bruce Betts said about the visible planets, “People should go out and see them sometime during the next many weeks. I certainly will.”
行星学会的首席科学家布鲁斯·贝茨在谈到这些可见行星时说：“在接下来的许多周里，人们应该出去看看它们。我当然会去。”
Here is a look ahead to the major sky events in 2025:
以下是2025年主要天文事件的展望：
Eclipses
日食和月食
The moon will disappear for more than an hour over North and South America on March 14.
3月14日，南北美洲上空将出现一个多小时的月全食现象。
The event will be followed two weeks later by a partial solar eclipse.
两周后将出现一次日偏食。
People in Maine, eastern Canada, Greenland, Europe, Siberia and northwestern Africa will be able to watch the show.
缅因州、加拿大东部、格陵兰岛、欧洲、西伯利亚和非洲西北部的人们将能够观赏到这一景象。
In September, there will be an even longer total lunar eclipse over Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
今年9月，欧洲、亚洲、非洲和澳大利亚将上演一场时间更长的月全食。
Two weeks later, a partial solar eclipse will take place in the area over the South Pacific, including New Zealand and parts of Antarctica.
两周后，南太平洋地区，包括新西兰和南极洲部分地区，将发生日偏食。
Supermoons
超级月亮
Three supermoons are coming this year in October, November and December.
今年将出现三次超级月亮，分别在十月、十一月和十二月。
The full moon will look especially big and bright those three months as it orbits closer to Earth than usual.
在这三个月中，满月看起来会格外大而明亮，因为它绕地球运行的轨道比平时更近。
November’s supermoon will come closest, passing within 356,980 kilometers from Earth.
11月的超级月亮将最为接近，距离地球仅356,980公里。
Last year had four supermoons, ending in November.
去年出现了四次超级月亮，最后一次是在十一月。
Planet parade
行星巡游
This month, six of our seven neighboring planets will line up in the sky to form a long arc.
本月，我们的七颗邻近行星中将有六颗在天空中排成一条长长的弧线。
All but Neptune and Uranus should be visible with the eye just after sunset, weather permitting.
如果天气允许，日落后不久，除海王星和天王星外，其他行星都可用肉眼看见。
The parade will continue for weeks.
游行将持续数周。
Mercury will make a short appearance by the end of February.
水星将在二月底短暂露面。
The planets will slowly exit, one by one, through spring.
行星们将在整个春季中逐一缓慢退出。
Northern and southern lights
北极光和南极光
Geomagnetic storms painted the sky with beautiful colors in unexpected places last year.
去年，地磁风暴在出人意料的地方用绚丽的色彩点缀了天空。
Space weather experts predict more of these storms this year.
空间天气专家预测，今年这类风暴还会更多。
Such storms could produce even more northern and southern lights.
这样的风暴可能会产生更多的北极光和南极光。
The reasoning for the prediction is that the sun has reached its solar maximum during its current 11-year cycle.
预测的依据是，太阳在当前11年周期中已达到太阳活动极大期。
The cycle could continue through this year.
这一循环可能会持续到今年。
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Shawn Dahl urges everyone to follow space weather news, so as not to miss any colorful shows.
美国国家海洋和大气管理局的肖恩·达尔呼吁大家关注太空天气新闻，以免错过任何多彩的表演。
Meteor showers
流星雨
The Perseid and Geminid meteor events, or showers, are well-known crowd-pleasers.
英仙座流星雨和双子座流星雨是广为人知、深受大众喜爱的天文盛事。
The Perseids will take place in August.
英仙座流星雨将在八月出现。
The Geminids come in December.
双子座流星雨出现在十二月。
But do not forget about the smaller meteor showers including the Lyrids in April, the Orionids in October and the Leonids in November.
但别忘了还有较小的流星雨，包括4月的天琴座流星雨、10月的猎户座流星雨和11月的狮子座流星雨。
Areas away from cities, where night skies are darker, are best for watching the events.
远离城市的地区，夜空更为漆黑，是观赏这些事件的最佳地点。
Generally, meteor showers are named for the constellation which they appear to come from.
通常，流星雨是以它们看似来源的星座来命名的。
They take place whenever Earth moves through paths of debris left behind by comets and sometimes asteroids.
它们发生在地球穿过彗星，有时是小行星，留下的碎片路径时。
I’m John Russell.
我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Marcia Dunn reported on this story for the Associated Press.
玛西娅·邓恩为美联社报道了这一事件。
John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English.
约翰·拉塞尔为VOA英语学习频道改编了它。
