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Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies sounds like a book that one might find in the library at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books – but it’s real, a book which catalogues the strangest astronomical objects found so far by man. 特殊星系中的荷顿·阿特拉斯星系听起来像一本能在哈利波特书中描述的霍格沃茨魔法学校图书馆中找到的书，但是实际上这是一本真实的书，它将目前人类已知的最奇怪的天文学物体分类了。 This galaxy, Holmberg II, is one of its star attractions – among the oddest places in the universe. 就宇宙中最奇怪的地点来说，霍姆伯格星系是其中一个星星的聚集点。 Here, it’s captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in the act of ‘blowing bubbles’ – actually intricate glowing shells of gas created by the lifecycles of generations of stars. 这是被哈勃望远镜拍到的泡泡，实际上是由于日换星移而产生的错综复杂的发光的壳体。 High-mass stars form in dense regions of gas, and later in life expel strong stellar winds that blow away the surrounding material. 大量的星星存在于稠密的气体中间，在接下来的日子中，强有力的恒星风将会将其周围的物体吹走。 At the very end of their lives, they explode in as a supernova. 在每颗星星生命的末尾，他们将会爆炸成为一颗超新星。 | 
