研究表明，银河系的形状像品客薯片

Looks like we live in a giant Pringle.

看起来我们住在一个巨大的品客里。

According to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip.

根据一种新的银河系三维模型，我们的银河系是扭曲的，形状像流行的薯片品牌。

“I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle,” Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map, told NBC News.

俄亥俄州立大学的天文学家RadekPoleski在接受NBC新闻的采访时说：“我想说，它的形状像品客薯片。”

To make the map, astronomers looked at the Milky Way’s bright, pulsing stars called cepheids, which burn up to 10,000 times more brightly than the sun.

为了绘制这幅地图，天文学家们观察了银河系中明亮的脉动恒星，这些恒星被称为造父变星，其亮度是太阳的1万倍。

Using a high-tech telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the researchers pinpointed the location of more than 2,400 stars to create their model.

利用智利拉斯坎帕纳斯天文台的高科技望远镜，研究人员精确定位了2400多颗恒星的位置，建立了他们的模型。

Previously, astronomers were forced to rely on measurements of other galaxies to infer the size of the Milky Way, and assumed it was shaped like a flat disk.

以前，天文学家被迫依靠对其他星系的测量来推断银河系的大小，并假设它的形状像一个扁平的圆盘。

The study was published in the journal Science Aug. 2.

这项研究发表在8月2日的《科学》杂志上。