第2877期:New type of scientist inspire national scientist movement

Unless you're an astronomer, the moment when the star in the center of this image flickers may not seem so exciting.除非你是天文学家，否则画面中央那颗星星闪烁的瞬间可能并不那么令人兴奋。But it marks the passage of an asteroid, space objects which are usually too small and faint to see.但它标志着一颗小行星的掠过，小行星这类太空物体通常太小太暗而难以观测。Those asteroids sometimes pass very close to us. They are detected a few hours, a few days before the flyby.那些小行星有时会离我们非常近，它们通常在飞掠前几小时或几天被探测到。And if we don't follow them up while they're doing the flyby, we will basically lose them.如果我们在它们飞过的时候没有进行追踪，我们就会失去其踪迹。In this case, the critical data came from a new consumer telescope carried in a backpack to a desert in Oman.在这种情况下，关键数据来自一台被装入背包带到阿曼的新型消费级望远镜。Franck Marchis, whose day job at SETI Institute involves working with the world's largest telescopes, designed the eVscope with colleagues at Unistellar to inspire a movement of citizen scientists.弗兰克·马基斯在SETI研究所的日常工作涉及使用全球最大的望远镜，他与Unistellar的同事们共同设计了eVscope，旨在激励全民科学家运动。The goal of the company is to democratize astronomy. I think we are ready for that.公司的目标是使每个人都接触天文学，我认为我们已经准备好了。Advances in technology give the eVscope the power of a room sized telescope while making it much easier to use.技术的进步使Evie望远镜具有房间大小的望远镜的威力，但同时也更易于使用。If you choose a point of interest with the App, the eVscope locates it using a star database as a map.如果用户通过应用程序选择一个兴趣点，eVscope会利用星体数据库作为地图来定位它。A low light sensor enhances faint stars by combining multiple exposures.微光传感器通过组合多次曝光来增强微弱星光。Users can also upload what they're seeing for researchers to analyze.用户还可以上传他们看到的内容，供研究人员分析。So we'd be able to send notification to our users when there is something interesting to observe in the sky, a new comet, a new supernova.当天空中出现值得观测的有趣现象时，比如新彗星或新超新星，我们就能向用户发送通知。We are going to be able to put together all those observations and get the best picture.我们将能够把所有这些观测结果整合起来，从而获得最清晰的全貌。An algorithm will search for the unexpected, like asteroids heading our way.算法会搜索意外情况，比如朝着我们飞来的小行星。Or it could be something even more exotic, like the birth of a civilization trying to communicate with us.也可能是更离奇的东西，比如一个试图与我们交流的文明的诞生。Citizen scientists can have a key role in this new era of space discovery. 全民科学家可以在这个太空发现的新时代发挥关键作用。