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NASA chief Bill Nelson presented one of the first images from the James Webb Space Tele-scope to U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday.
昨天，美国航空航天局局长比尔·纳尔逊在白宫向美国总统乔·拜登展示了“詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜”拍摄的首张图像。
NASA says it's the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.
美国航空航天局称，这是迄今为止宇宙深处最清晰的红外图像。
The image, dubbed "Webb's First Deep Field", was taken by the space observatory's Near-Infrared Camera, it shows thousands of galaxies in sharp detail.
这张被命名为“韦伯的首次深空”的图像，是由韦伯太空望远镜的近红外相机拍摄的，展示了成千上万个星系的清晰细节。
The deep field image is a composite of several different wavelengths, when combined it shows a galaxy cluster as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago.
该深空图像是由几个不同的波长合成，经过组合处理，展示了一个距离地球46亿光年的星系团。
"You're seeing galaxies that are shining around other galaxies whose light has been bent and you're seeing just a small little portion of the universe."
“你们看到的星系正在其他星系周围发光，它们的光线已经弯曲，而你看到的只是宇宙的一小部分。”
Webb's 6.5-meter gold-coated primary mirror consists of 18 individual hexagonal segments,
韦伯太空望远镜的镀金主镜为6.5米，由18片独立的六边形镜片构成，
the equipment on board is protected by a five-layered sunshield the size of a tennis court.
并配有5层可展开的遮阳板，这款遮阳板的面积大小相当于一个网球场。
The 10-billion-dollar project is the world's largest and most powerful space observatory ever built.
这款造价100亿美元的太空望远镜，是世界上最大、功能最强的太空望远镜。
Operating at the Earth-sun Lagrange point 2, a point nearly 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth,
韦伯太空望远镜目前在距离地球约150万公里的日地拉格朗日L2点工作，
Webb's infrared sensors can see the cosmos as it was 13 billion years ago as it takes time for light to travel through space.
它的红外传感器可以看到130亿年前的宇宙，这是因为光在太空中传播需要时间。
The telescope was launched into space by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in December last year.
去年12月，该太空望远镜从法属圭亚那的库鲁航天中心，由阿丽亚娜5型火箭发射升空。
