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1·Will the result of these galactic collisions be one big elliptical galaxy?

星系的撞击将会使它们合成一个大的椭圆型星系吗？

2·Just below and to its right is fuzzy-looking Maffei 1, the closest giant elliptical galaxy to Earth.

它的下面偏右（在画面的左边中间）看起来毛绒绒一团的是马费伊1，离地球最近的巨型椭圆星系。

3·As an elliptical galaxy, NGC 1132 has little dust and gas, and few stars have formed in it recently.

NGC 1132是一个椭圆星系，因此少有尘埃和气体，最近也很少有新恒星形成。

4·Its broad arms are distorted by gravitational interaction with a fellow Virgo cluster member, giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4697.

其宽广的旋臂被该星系团另一成员，巨型椭圆星系ngc 4697的引力作用所扭曲。

5·Collisions also can transform the shape of galaxies involved; specifically, the merger of two spiral galaxies may produce a single elliptical galaxy.

碰撞也会改变星系的外形，特别是当两螺旋星系融合后可能会产生单一的椭圆星系。

6·The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex and unexpected given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images.

这个在弱深空影像中看上去相对平常的椭圆星系在下面这张深空影像中却出人意料地显示出异常复杂的多层发光结构。

7·Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it.

他们的调查表明，NGC 1316这个巨大的椭圆星系大约在1亿年前开始吞噬位于照片上方、体型较小的旋涡星系邻居NGC 1317。

8·NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence that black holes — once they grow to a critical size — stifle the formation of new stars in elliptical galaxies.

太空总署的星系演变探测者发现了黑洞存在的证据：一旦其达到一个临界规模，椭圆形星系中的新星形成便会被扼杀。

9·It is the fate of the spiral galaxy to be pulled like taffy and then swallowed by the pair of elliptical galaxies, which will trigger a firestorm of new stellar creation.

这个漩涡星系将不可避免的被像太妃糖一样拉长，最后被那一对椭圆星系吞掉，而这将触发一场恒星诞生烈火风暴。

10·Eventually, the elliptical galaxies should merge, creating one single super-galaxy many times larger than our Milky Way.

最终，椭圆星系将融合，创造出一个比我们银河系大很多倍的超级星系。