A Patch Of Sky的意思|示意

Soon after the upgrades, Hubble took aim at a dark patch of sky, gathering infrared light for a total of four days to detect the very faintest objects.

更新后不久，哈勃便把目标锁定太空的一处黑暗区。在连续收集了四天红外光后，哈勃发现了极其微弱的物体。

Only a tiny patch of blue was visible in the cloudy sky.

多云的天空中只见到一小块儿湛蓝。 。

It takes a snapshot of the night sky and then rotates to image another patch, eventually covering a huge swath.

每拍摄一张夜空快照，它就会转向另一片区以至覆盖大面积天空。

That might signal a small patch of blue sky.

这可能标志着天空那一抹蔚蓝色出现。

He did it with a high tech marvel called a blink comparator; he put two photographs of the same patch of sky taken on different nights into the contraption and flipped back and forth between them.

而这还多亏了一件叫做闪烁对比仪的高科技法宝；他把两张在不同夜晚拍摄的天空中同一位置的照片放在这个仪器里，然后快速地来回浏览。

The Kepler mission takes that notion and applies it on a grand scale by staring at a patch of sky in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations to continuously observe the brightness of 156,000 stars.

开普勒团队接受这个概念，并将它在一个巨大的范围内加以应用：他们盯住天鹅座和天琴座附近的天空以持续观察156,000颗恒星的闪烁情况。