The sky had a new and startling beauty that night. A broad, fluctuating, semicircular arch of vivid white light spanned the northern quarter of the heavens, reaching from the horizon to the star Eta in the Greater Bear.

那天晚上的天空有一种新的惊人的美丽。一个宽阔的、起伏的、半圆形的、明亮的白光拱形横跨天空的北半部分，从地平线一直延伸到大熊座中的埃塔星。