So quasars are spewing out charged particles.

所以类星体喷出带电粒子。

We detect quasars with radio telescopes and radio antenna.

我们用射电望远镜和线电天线探测到类星体。

How can quasars produce radio waves and why can't I listen to them?

类星体如何线电波，为什么我能听它们？

Happily, the name was shortened to quasar, which, you'll admit, is way cooler.

是，这个名字被缩短为类星体，得说，这个名字要酷得多。

Almost all the telescopes we have in the world are designed to peer at very tiny little pieces of the sky way off in the distance to see a quasar or hunt for black holes or look at a distant galaxy.

世界上差多所有望远镜都旨在观察遥远天空中极小东西，观察一颗类星体，或寻找黑洞，或观察一个遥远星系。

I didn't know what a proton was, or a protein, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't understand how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything really.

我知道什么是质子，什么是蛋白质，知道夸克和类星体有什么区别，理解地质学家怎么只要看一眼峡谷壁上一层岩石，就能说出它年龄--我确实什么也知道。