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"Countdown, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignite!..."

In the control building of the Lingshan Rocket Launch Base, dozens of technicians in white clothes stared closely at the display screens in front of them. Others stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, looking expectantly at the huge rocket two or three kilometers away, with only a vague outline visible.

The "Mercury" space telescope is now in a folded position, huddled in the rocket cabin.

It is the most advanced space telescope recently developed in the human world. It has infrared and visible light resolution and sensitivity that far exceeds that of any previous space telescope, and can theoretically detect celestial objects that are only one-fifth of a billionth of the brightness of the most advanced space telescopes of the previous generation.

Many scientific researchers have high hopes for it. People expect that the Mercury space telescope will be able to observe the early evolution of the universe as clearly as possible from the closest perspective, like Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, and find the first phase formed in the universe after the Big Bang. The light of a group of stars and galaxies can be used to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, and even the origin of planetary systems and life.

This is the most important step the human world has ever taken in the history of space exploration.

In the lens of media reporters, the commander-in-chief of the launch mission gave the launch order sonorously and forcefully. The next moment, a camera placed near the rocket captured the scene of flames suddenly emerging from the bottom of the rocket.

Astonishing heat was dissipated everywhere, and the water used for cooling at the bottom of the rocket was instantly evaporated. Amidst the clouds and mist, the heavy rocket slowly rose up, making a loud noise like a tractor, which spread throughout the space for several kilometers.

The rocket is getting faster and faster. In just a moment, it passed through the clouds, flew directly into the sky and disappeared.

There was brief applause in the control room.

Countless viewers who stayed in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of the launch heard the next step of the news from the host.

"The rocket has successfully entered the predetermined orbit. After that, it will orbit the earth for more than ten times. During this process, it will slowly accelerate and break away from the earth's gravity at the right time and step into deep space. After about a week, It will arrive at the Sun, the Earth's second Lagrangian point, where it will complete attitude adjustment and conduct subsequent observation missions.

The telescope control team said that after it reaches its intended location, it is expected to take about half a year to debug and verify it. If all goes well, in about a year, the first batch of photos taken by the Mercury space telescope will be processed and released to the world. Audience friends, let us look forward to it together. "

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Two years later.

In the Deep Space Laboratory Building of Yunshan University, Professor Zhou Tianyang, who is over 50 years old, slowly walked to the office belonging to his team.

"Good morning, Professor Zhou."

"Morning, Professor."

Facing the joyful and high-spirited greetings from his researchers, Zhou Tianyang couldn't help but smile.

"Hello everyone. Well, how are the preparations going?"

"Don't worry, Professor, I'm sure nothing will go wrong!"

Zhou Tianyang glared at him and scolded: "Don't be careless! Go check the process again!"

Although it was a reprimand on the surface, his tone was full of concern and love.

This is the student he cares about the most. At a young age, he has already led three large-scale deep space observation projects under his own guidance, published three papers with high impact factors, and has gained a certain reputation in the academic world.

If there were no accidents, when the paper on this deep space observation project was finally produced, I planned to have him sign the second work. For a young man who is just in his thirties, it is easy to know what this means.

At that time, he can truly go out on his own, set up his own team, and secure funds to conduct further, more in-depth, and cutting-edge research.

The student named Wang Yue agreed and led the junior brothers and sisters to start a serious and detailed inspection again. Zhou Tianyang was worried and joined in the inspection.

There was no reason for Zhou Tianyang to be careless. It has been two years since the Mercury Space Telescope was launched. After preliminary debugging and verification, it officially started deep space exploration a year and a half ago. The observation mission submitted by my team finally started yesterday after a year and a half of queuing.

The telescope will aim its lens at a slight angle in the direction of Sirius, observe that corner of the earth for three full days, and perform three full days of exposure.

Because the light of distant galaxies is too weak. Even if you use the most advanced telescope in the human world to observe, it is impossible to see clearly. If you want to collect more data, you can only increase the observation time.

There have been many such attempts in the history of deep space observation. The most famous of them are the three composite images taken by the Hubble Telescope, namely the Hubble Deep Field, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and the Hubble Extreme Deep Field.

In the Hubble Extreme Deep Field, the Hubble Space Telescope targeted a small area in the constellation Fornax, with a cumulative exposure time of up to 2 million seconds. The luminosity of the faintest galaxy in the image is only a hundred centimeters below the lower limit of the speed of light visible to the naked eye. One in a billion.

However, just this corner of the universe contains tens of thousands of huge river systems. Each of them is on the same scale as the Milky Way where the human world is located.

The vastness of the universe hits us in such an extreme way and is presented to people.

At this moment, the research conducted by Zhou Tianyang's team is similar to the Hubble Deep Field. The difference is that the goal of Zhou Tianyang's team is not to have multiple river systems in the universe, but only one.

This galaxy is numbered CSK-9602 in the Deep Sky Catalog and is located approximately in the direction of Sirius, about 160 million light-years away from the solar system. Its diameter is about 70,000 light-years, and it is composed of about 100 billion stars.

It is a ring galaxy. According to analysis, it is most likely that a smaller galaxy collided with it hundreds of millions of years ago. The gravitational battle between them threw a large number of stars to the edge of the galaxy, forming a ring around the galaxy. Core operation.

A ring and a core shape to make it look like an eye. It's like there is a huge eye staring at everything in the universe. Therefore, in addition to the official deep space star catalog number, it also has another name, the Magic Eye Galaxy.

Zhou Tianyang believes that studying the Magic Eye Galaxy is of extremely important significance in increasing human understanding of the evolution of galaxies. However, limited by the limitations of previous observation tools, the human world does not know much about the Magic Eye Galaxy except for a few blurry photos.

Because of this, Zhou Tianyang waited in line for more than a year and finally waited for the observation time of the Mercury Space Telescope. He planned to use these three days to observe it properly.

Soon, all the data collected in these three days, which is expected to reach hundreds of terabytes, will soon arrive in his laboratory. We must process and analyze this batch of data as quickly as possible, conduct follow-up research, and make final conclusions and publish papers.

Because as far as Zhou Tianyang knows, in the scientific community, there are at least four deep space observation teams with the same purpose as his own team and have conducted research in similar directions. Once someone else takes the lead and publishes the research results first, then the hard work of your team over the past two years will be greatly reduced, if not in vain.

Fortunately, Yunshan University, where my laboratory is located, also participated in the development and launch of the Mercury Space Telescope, and had a certain say in the entire project, so that it could be the turn of its own mission to conduct observations only two years after the launch.

After carefully verifying the data path, model construction, supercomputing power scheduling and other aspects, and confirming that everything was correct, Professor Zhou Tianyang felt relieved.

Time slowly slipped away amid the expectations of Zhou Tianyang’s team members. At this moment, it is finally time to receive data.

Data has been transmitted from the Mercury space telescope to the ground control center through relay satellites. The data interface has been opened and the download process has begun.

At this moment, on average, up to one gigabyte of data is downloaded through dedicated broadband every second.

It is expected to take about a week to download all the data.

Fortunately, the amount of data is not very large. If there is more data, then we need to use the ultimate trick for data transmission - find a big truck and pull the hard drive recording the data directly from the ground control center.

After waiting anxiously for another week, the data was finally downloaded.

On this day, the entire team, from Professor Zhou Tianyang to the intern researchers, were all in high spirits. According to the plan that had been formulated long ago, Zhou Tianyang gave an order, and everyone rushed to the computer like a tiger out of the cage, and began to analyze and organize the data, as well as research work.

When people actually started to process these data, they were completely immersed in the vastness and magnificence of the universe. Many details have been unearthed through this observation, and every new discovery will cause people to exclaim.

"There are a large number of star factories in the Magic Eye Galaxy. It is estimated that at least hundreds of thousands of stars are being formed. This is completely different from what we expected before."

"The metallicity also deviates from the predicted value. Perhaps the smaller galaxy that merged with the Magic Eye galaxy has more old stars in it?"

Brand-new details and new discoveries stimulate people's nerves all the time. At this moment, people have a vague premonition that many new discoveries of extremely high weight will be made available in this research.

After the preliminary sorting was completed, about a month later, the first research result of this observation-a full high-definition picture of the Magic Eye Galaxy was finally synthesized.

Usually, the magnificent deep space pictures of the universe that people see, such as the Hubble Deep Field, the Pillars of Creation, the Eagle Nebula, etc., are not real shots. Those colorful colors are all artificially added after post-processing.

Different temperatures, densities, elemental compositions, object shapes, etc. will be represented by different brightness and colors. After adding these detailed information, a deep sky picture can be generated. But it may be nothing like what you see with the naked eye.

At this moment, the high-definition picture of the Magic Eye Galaxy synthesized by Zhou Tianyang's team is different from the previous practice. This time, Professor Zhou Tianyang strives to be "real". Although there are some artificial parts, he believes that if one day, someone really stands at the right angle and distance to look at the Magic Eye Galaxy, what he sees will be the same as his own. The resulting image is similar.

At this moment, all the researchers gathered in the conference room, looking expectantly at the curtain hanging in front of them. Professor Zhou Tianyang walked in with a smile on his face amid high expectations.

After a brief speech, all windows in the conference room were covered and all lights turned off. In the darkness, Professor Zhou Tianyang pressed the button and the laser projector started working.

So the next moment, an "eye" with some kind of magical power appeared on the curtain.

The light is shining, the nebulae are flowing, billions of stars...

People's breathing paused unconsciously. The sound of a needle dropping could be heard in the huge conference room.

All people's attention is attracted by this picture. It seems that at this moment, people's souls have crossed a distance of more than 100 million light-years and plunged into this magnificent and gorgeous galaxy that cannot be described in words.

Many people even shed tears unconsciously at this moment.

After a long time, some people gradually came back to their senses, but they could only keep repeating one word.

"It's so beautiful, so beautiful..."

Apart from this word, people don’t know what language to use to describe it.

It wasn't until Professor Zhou Tianyang turned on the light that the picture of the Magic Eye Galaxy on the curtain was no longer so brilliant due to the interference of the light. People reluctantly withdrew their sight, but they still couldn't help but aim at it every few seconds. One glance.

It seems that it really has some magical power that is addictive and breathtaking.

Professor Zhou Tianyang also reluctantly withdrew his gaze and said: "This is just a preliminary picture. There are still a lot of details that have not been filled in. After our analysis and research work goes further, I believe this picture will be more magnificent and more gorgeous."

Everyone is confident about this.

After the celebration party, Professor Zhou Tianyang returned home with a slightly tired body and still excited spirit.

My wife and children have fallen asleep now. After Zhou Tianyang washed his hands and feet, he lay down on the bed and planned to sleep.

But for some reason, he, who always slept well, had insomnia today. He would always recall the picture of the Magic Eye Galaxy involuntarily, and his heart would be like a kitten scratching at it, always wanting to take another look.

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