" Congratulations to 'blue scuti, '" Rogers said.

“祝贺‘blue scuti’，”罗杰斯说。

Before we can answer that, we need to get to know UY Scuti a little better.

在回答这个问题之前，我们需要对盾牌座 UY 有一个更好的了解。

This is What If and here's what would happen if Earth orbited UY Scuti.

这就是本期的《假如有如果》，如果地球绕着盾牌座 UY 而行就会发生以下的事情。

Gibson lives in the Midwestern state of Oklahoma and goes by the gaming name " Blue Scuti."

吉布森住在美国中西部的俄克拉何马州，游戏名为“Blue Scuti”。

It's the largest star that we've ever discovered: UY Scuti.

盾牌座 UY。

To say that UY Scuti is huge would be an understatement.

如果用巨大来描述盾牌座 UY，那就有些轻描淡写了。

Discovered by German astronomers in 1860, UY Scuti is located in the Scouten constellation.

1860 年，德国天文学家发现了位于斯库滕星座的盾牌座 UY。

You see, UY Scuti is a red giant which means it's a lot closer to its death than our Sun is.

你看，盾牌座 UY 是一颗红色巨星，这意味着它比我们的太阳更接近毁灭。

To be habitable, we'd have to put our planet in orbit about one-and-a-half trillion kilometers away from UY Scuti.

要想适合人类居住，我们就必须把地球放到距离盾牌座 UY 1.5 万亿公里远的轨道上。

On top of that, UY Scuti would be pulsing out extra heavy radiation about every 740 days, and things would only get worse the longer we stay there.

最重要的是，盾牌座 UY 每隔 740 天就会发出超强的辐射，我们在那里待得越久，情况就会越糟。

If UY Scuti took our Suns placed in the center of our solar system, it would engulf everything as far out as the orbit of Saturn.

如果盾牌座 UY 替代了我们太阳在太阳系的中心位置，它将吞没远至土星轨道内的所有东西。

Instead, we could just move the earth to the orbit of UY Scuti, but we'd have to be careful how close we place our planet to this gigantic star.

从另一个角度来说，我们可以把地球移到盾牌座 UY 的轨道上，但是我们必须小心与这颗巨型恒星的距离。