“科学大众”编者按:苏联“知识即力量”杂志1955年1月号发表“宇宙间的生命”一文后,读者纷纷去信该刊,表示对如何研究行星的问题很感到兴趣。该刊就再请作者巴拉巴舍夫同志写了“天文学家的武器”一文,谈这个问题。本刊六月号已经译载了“宇宙间的生命”一文,对於这个问题,本刊读者也是感到兴趣的。所以再将“天文学家的武器”译载在这里。行星的温度月亮和行星所辐射的热能,决定於它们由太阳那里得到能量的多少。行星把落在它上面的太阳能一部分反射出去,而另一部分则被行星吸收,并 “Science for Science” Editor’s Note: After the Soviet Union “Knowledge is Power” magazine published the article “Life in the Universe” in the January 1955 issue, readers wrote letters to the journal and expressed their interest in how to study the issue of the planet. The journal then asked the writer Comrade Balabashev to write “Astronomy of Weapons” and talk about this issue. The issue of “The Life in the Universe” has been translated in the June issue of the journal. The readers of this journal are also interested in this issue. So translate the “astronomer’s weapons” here. The temperature of the planet The heat energy radiated by the moon and planets depends on how much energy they receive from the sun. The planet reflects part of the solar energy falling on it and the other part is absorbed by the planet and