太阳已经进入“禁闭”期

太阳已经进入“禁闭”期，这可能会导致冰冻天气、饥荒

Our sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say.

科学家说，我们的太阳已经进入禁闭状态，这可能导致冰冻天气、地震和饥荒。

The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum,” meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically.

太阳目前正处于“太阳活动极小期”，这意味着其表面的活动已经急剧下降。

Experts believe we are about to enter the deepest period of sunshine “recession” ever recorded as sunspots have virtually disappeared.

专家认为，随着太阳黑子几乎消失，我们即将进入有史以来最深的日照“衰退”时期。

Astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips said: “Solar Minimum is underway and it’s a deep one.”

天文学家托尼菲利普斯博士说：“太阳活动极小期正在进行，这是很深的一次。”

“Sunspot counts suggest it is one of the deepest of the past century. The sun’s magnetic field has become weak, allowing extra cosmic rays into the solar system.”

太阳黑子的数量表明这是上个世纪最深的一次。太阳的磁场变得很弱，允许额外的宇宙射线进入太阳系。”

“Excess cosmic rays pose a health hazard to astronauts and polar air travelers, affect the electro-chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and may help trigger lightning.”

“过量的宇宙射线对宇航员和极地旅行者的健康构成危害，影响地球上层大气的电化学，并可能引发闪电。”

NASA scientists fear it could be a repeat of the Dalton Minimum, which happened between 1790 and 1830 — leading to periods of brutal cold, crop loss, famine and powerful volcanic eruptions.

美国国家航空航天局的科学家们担心，这可能是道尔顿极小期的重演。道尔顿极小期发生在1790年到1830年之间，导致了严寒、作物歉收、饥荒和火山爆发。

Temperatures plummeted by up to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over 20 years, devastating the world’s food production.

20年内，气温骤降了2摄氏度(3.6华氏度)，破坏了世界粮食生产。

On April 10, 1815, the second-largest volcanic eruption in 2,000 years happened at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, killing at least 71,000 people.

1815年4月10日，印尼坦博拉山发生2000年来第二大火山喷发，造成至少7.1万人死亡。

It also led to the so-called Year Without a Summer in 1816 — also nicknamed “eighteen hundred and froze to death” — when there was snow in July.

这也导致了所谓的1816年的无夏之年——也被称为“冻死人的1800”——当年7月飞雪。

So far this year, the sun has been “blank” with no sunspots 76 percent of the time, a rate surpassed only once before in the Space Age — last year, when it was 77 percent blank.

今年以来，太阳一直是“空白”的，76%的时间没有太阳黑子，这一比例在太空时代只超过过一次——去年，77%。