Forget Iceland's volcano. If you want to see a really big eruption, you need to head to the Sun.

　　想见识什么才叫做真正的“大爆发”么？不要想冰岛的那座火山了，你应该膜拜一下太阳。

　　This astonishing image - captured by a new Nasa space telescope - shows a ferocious solar flare looping out the Sun with the power of 100 hydrogen bombs.

　　这张震惊的图片是被美国宇航局太空望远镜拍到的，我们看到，一团炽热的猛烈喷发出的火焰包围着太阳，其释放出的能量相当于100个氢弹。

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       The ring of fire, heated to tens of millions of degrees, stretches out tens of thousands of miles - and is so big it could contain more than 100 Earths.

　　这团火焰有几千万摄氏度，它的火舌向外延展了几万公里，甚至能包裹住100个地球。

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       The pictures were taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the Sun.

　　这些照片都是在太阳动力学观测站上拍摄到的，它目前是研究太阳这个天体中，最先进的航天器。

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        The clarity of the SDO images means that it will feed back to Nasa on Earth more comprehensive science data than any other solar observing spacecraft.

　　从太阳动力学观测站上拍摄的这些清晰照片表明，它将会把更全面的科学数据反馈给美国航天局，这些数据要远比其它那些观测航天器全面的多。

　　Every day it sends out 1.5 terabytes of data, equal to 500,000 songs on an MP3 player.

　　每天它会传送出1.5兆位组的数据，相当于一个储存了五十万首歌曲的Mp3播放器。

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    　Some of the images show never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots.

　　一些照片暴露了以前我们从来没看到过的太阳上面的细节图片，比如远离或处于太阳黑子外部的物质流。

　　Others show extreme close-ups of activity on the Sun’s surface.

　　其它一些图片则给太阳表面的极端活动做了特写。