"Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they age," said Crowther, an astrophysicist at the University of Sheffield in northern England.
"The biggest live only 3 million years," Crowther said. "In astronomy that's a very short time."
“最大的恒星寿命仅为3百万年,这在天文学中是个很短的时间。”克洛泽说。
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As Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956, put it, anonymity keeps the editor "not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself."