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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found the farthest star ever observed.
近日，天文学家用哈勃太空望远镜发现了迄今最遥远的恒星。
The discovery required the fortuitous alignment of a massive galactic cluster. The cluster warped the starlight, bending it toward Earth while magnifying the star 2,000 times.
这一发现需要一个大规模星系团的偶然对齐。该星团使恒星的星光偏离了原本的方向，照向地球，将这颗恒星放大了2000倍。
Officially, the star's name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1. But the astronomers call it Icarus.
这颗恒星的正式名称为MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1。但是天文学家们则称其为“伊卡洛斯”。
It was a hundredfold more distant than any other star previously detected, according to Patrick Kelly, an astrophysicist at the University of Minnesota.
明尼苏达大学的天文物理学家帕特里克·凯利称，该恒星比此前发现的任何其他恒星都要远一百倍。
"The discovery of Icarus allows us to gather new insights into the constituents of the galaxy cluster," explains Steven Rodney, an astrophysicist at the University of South Carolina.
南卡罗来纳大学的天文物理学家史蒂芬·罗德尼解释称：“伊卡洛斯的发现，使我们能够对星系群的组成部分有新的认识。”
Normally only phenomena like supernovas -- catastrophic stellar explosions -- or entire galaxies are detectable at such vast distances.
一般而言，只有超新星等现象（灾难性的恒星爆炸）或整个星系才能在如此远的距离下被观测到。
