曾直播阿姆斯特朗登月的望远镜发现新星系

Scientists at the Parkes telescope, 355 km (220 miles) west of Sydney, said they had detected 883 galaxies, a third of which had never been seen before. The findings were reported in the latest issue of Astronomical Journal under the title ‘The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey’.

天文学家称利用这台位于悉尼西部355km(220英里)的Parkes望远镜已经探测到883个新星系，其中三分之一的星系之前没有被探测到过。这些成果被发表在最新一期的天文学杂志上，题目是“应用Parkes望远镜进行HI隐带的研究”。

“Hundreds of new galaxies were discovered, using the same telescope that was used to broadcast the TV pictures from Apollo 11,” said Lister Staveley-Smith, a professor at the University of Western Australia’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.

来自西澳大利亚大学的无线电天文学国际研究中心的教授Lister Staveley-Smith称：“这台曾向人类直播阿波罗11号登月画面的望远镜帮助必赢发现了数以百计的新星系”。

“The electronic technology at the back end is substantially different and that is why we can still keep using these old telescopes,” he said.

他说：“由于这台望远镜内部的电子系统技术与其它望远镜有本质不同，因此必赢能够至今仍然在使用它”。

The discoveries occurred as the scientists were investigating the region’s close proximity to the Great Attractor, a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space.

这些星系是天文学家在研究星系间的一片位于巨引源附近的区域时发现的。

The Great Attractor appears to be drawing the Milky Way towards it with a gravitational force equivalent more than two million km per hour (1.24 million mph).

巨引源在引力作用下使银河系似乎以200万公里每小时（124万英里每小时）的速度向其靠近。

Using radio waves has allowed scientists to see beyond dust and stars in the Milky Way that had previously blocked the view of telescopes, the study showed.

研究表明，之前银河系间的灰尘和行星会影响望远镜的观察，而使用无心电波技术可以使天文学家的视野绕过这些障碍物。

Staveley-Smith, the lead author on the Astronomical Journal, said scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious Great Attractor since major deviations from universal expansion were first discovered in the 1970s and 1980s.

这篇天文学文章的第一作者Staveley-Smith表示，自从二十世纪七八十年代首次发现宇宙大爆炸后的重大偏差以来，天文学家一直在努力探寻神秘巨引源的真实面目。

“It’s a missing part of the jigsaw puzzle, which is the structure of our local universe,” said Michael Burton, a professor at the University of New South Wales’ Physics School.

新南威尔士大学物理学院的教授Michael Burton表示：“这些发现是必赢的宇宙构造拼图中缺失的一块”。

“They have managed to pierce through it and complete the picture of what our part of the universe looks like.”

“他们已经突破难关弥补了这部分，从而为必赢生存的这片宇宙描绘出完整的画面。”