"三体"真实存在：科学家发现拥有三颗太阳的行星
Scientists discover bizarre world with three suns, 300-year seasons
"Star Wars" fans love Tatooine and its twin suns, but astronomers working with one of the world's biggest telescopes have done Luke Skywalker's home planet one better.
《星球大战》中的塔图因星球（Tatooine,天行者家族的故乡行星）以及它所绕行的双子太阳深受粉丝的喜爱,然而日前天文学家们利用世界上最大的天文望远镜之一发现了一个比卢克·天行者的故乡所在的星球更胜一筹的行星.
They've discovered a bizarre world with not two but three suns ― and seasons that last longer than a human lifetime.
他们发现了一个奇妙的新世界,在这里,你能看到不止两个太阳,而是三个,同时,每一个季节都比人类的一生还要漫长.
Known as HD 131399Ab, the unusual exoplanet is located 320 light-years from Earth in the large southern constellation Centaurus. It's a gas giant like Jupiter but about four times as massive.
这颗不同寻常的地外行星被命名为HD 131399Ab, 它位于南方巨大的人马星座上,距地球320光年.它是类似于木星的气体巨星,但它的体积是木星的四倍.
And while it's one of the coldest exoplanets ever to be directly imaged by a telescope (rather than detected as a result of the dimming of starlight as it passes in front of its host star), HD 131399Ab is very hot by human standards. The average temperature exceeds 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
虽然它是温度最冷的地外行星中被天文望远镜直接捕捉到影像的一个（而不是在从其宿星前经过时被检测到一抹暗淡的星光）,HD 131399Ab星球上的平均温度超过华氏1000度,远超人类耐热标准.
In short, HD 131399Ab isn't the kind of place you'd like to call home. (And there's no hint that it harbors alien life.) But if you could live there, you'd find its sky a most peculiar place: You'd see either constant daylight or triple sunsets, depending on the season.
简而言之,HD 131399Ab行星绝不是一个宜居的地方（并且这里也没有发现外星生命迹象）.但是如果你有机会住在那儿,你会看到最光怪陆离的天空：根据季节的不同,你可能看到永昼,也有可能同时欣赏三个落日.
And each season on HD 131399Ab lasts about 300 years.
HD 131399Ab行星的每一个季节都持续三百年左右.
