Lu Ming, the Xunxing space telescope, knew about it.

For human civilization in today's era, every space telescope is a national treasure and an extremely important scientific research equipment. Human civilization currently only has seven space telescopes in total.

There are tens of thousands of scientific research teams relying on the observation data of these seven space telescopes to conduct their own scientific research projects, which has greatly advanced the entire civilization's understanding of the universe.

A space telescope with the oldest model and the most backward technology has its observation projects scheduled for more than a year.

Compared with its peers, the Starfinder Space Telescope appears to be relatively ordinary. Its caliber is not large, its accuracy is not high, and its technology is not advanced enough. It is far from comparable to the newly launched Mercury.

At this moment, Lu Ming was a little curious when he heard that Lu Qingliang said it was the discovery of the Xunxing space telescope. He looked at the screenshot of the news and saw that it read: "Sun Yu's team from Lunan University recently discovered a strange high-brightness star. The star is about 100 to 150 billion kilometers away from the earth. It has extremely high brightness. , the absolute magnitude is comparable to Jupiter, that is, if it has the same albedo as Jupiter, its volume is equivalent to the size of Jupiter..."

Lu Ming shook his head: "Is it a headline-grabbing campaign created by the unscrupulous media?"

This kind of thing happens all the time in the scientific world. Some unscrupulous media adhere to the principle of saying nothing shocking and wantonly exaggerate and distort the words of scientific researchers in order to attract attention. A piece of news that captured a suspected black hole can be distorted by them before it is announced as "scientists have received an alien signal from deep space" and so on.

This piece of news looks like a headline-grabber.

Comparable in size to Jupiter? Even if its albedo is higher, its volume is ten times smaller than Jupiter, and its density is ten times lower than Jupiter, its mass is still far greater than that of the Earth. Wouldn't it be considered a real large planet? Could it be that after Pluto was kicked out of the ranks of major planets and the nine major planets became eight major planets, it will now become nine again?

This is too incredible.

Lu Qingliang whispered: "After seeing this news, I contacted Sun Yu's team. They confirmed that although this news is a bit exaggerated, it is not outrageous."

Lu Ming was slightly startled and his expression became serious.

"The elemental composition, type, origin, etc. of this star have not yet been determined. At this moment, there are only a few data that can be used as a basis for research. Well, the scientific research project of Sun Yu's team is to study the early evolution of supernova explosions, and they have applied for it. The Starfinder space telescope's observation time was originally intended to observe a red giant star in the direction of Sirius, but it accidentally discovered this strange star.

What they can determine so far is that the star is not large, even much smaller than Pluto, but it is very bright. Their original words were that even if a mirror equal to its cross-sectional area were placed at that distance to reflect the sun's rays, it would not be so bright when observed from us. From this it can be concluded that its light should be emitted by itself, not reflected sunlight.

There is currently too little data for them to make further judgments. They have reported this discovery and are applying for observation time with a new space telescope in order to conduct further observations of the star and collect more data. "

Not a clickbait? Or...at least it's not a complete clickbait?

Does such a star really exist? And it was discovered from the direction of Sirius—the CSK-9602 galaxy is also located in the direction of Sirius?

Lu Qingliang continued: "This star is too strange, and it was discovered from the direction of the CSK-9602 galaxy. I don't know if it is related to our case."

Zhang Dingshan and He Wei were a little confused. Lu Ming thought for a while and said, "Give me more detailed data."

"This is the data I got from Sun Yu's team."

Lu Ming accepted it and looked at it carefully.

He was originally from the astronomy department, and it was not difficult for him to understand the data and analysis now. After reading it carefully, Lu Ming became even more confused.

He Wei couldn't help but said: "Alien spaceship?"

It's small, but very bright, so it makes sense to guess that it's an alien spacecraft. After all, it is generally understood that only man-made objects can emit such bright light in such a small volume.

Lu Ming shook his head: "It is not an artificial object. Spectral analysis shows that its electromagnetic radiation energy covers the entire waveband and is relatively evenly distributed. This is a characteristic of natural stars. If it is an artificial light source, its energy should be relatively concentrated. .”

Just like electric lamps used for human lighting, the light they emit is concentrated in the visible light band. The remaining radio waves, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, gamma rays and other bands are very weak.

"Then... white dwarf? Neutron star?"

A typical neutron star has a radius of only a dozen kilometers, but its mass is comparable to that of the sun. They can radiate amazing energy to the outside world with a very small size.

These energies are mainly high-energy electromagnetic waves, namely gamma rays, X-rays, etc. But there are also electromagnetic waves in other bands, which also cover the entire band.

Lu Ming shook his head again: "It cannot be a compact star. The mass of a compact star is too large. Even if the distance is ten times further than it is now, it will be enough to affect the pattern of the entire solar system. The mass of this unknown existence must not be too large."

"Or... a white dwarf, some fragment of a neutron star?"

"No. In other words, not under natural circumstances. The reason why a white dwarf or a neutron star maintains its extremely high density lies in the gravity brought by its huge mass. There is no such thing as fragments. Once separated from the whole, they lose their hugeness. Bound by gravity, the fragments will immediately skyrocket and turn into cosmic dust in a violent explosion."

"What kind of natural star could that be? Far smaller than Pluto, not too massive, but as bright as Jupiter?"

He Wei couldn't understand.

However, He Wei was not the only one who couldn't understand. Lu Ming, who has more professional knowledge than He Wei, is even more incomprehensible at this moment.

"I don't know what it is. Neither do the researchers on Sun Yu's team. No one knows."

Zhang Dingshan knocked on the table lightly, and after everyone calmed down, he looked at Lu Qingliang: "Do you suspect that this star was caused by the weird 'ritual' held by the monsters a few days ago?"

There was immediate silence in the conference room. After a long time, Lu Qingliang reluctantly nodded: "There is such suspicion."

This conjecture cannot be said to be surprising. But in the current situation, it somehow seems reasonable.

Lu Ming had been guessing what the monsters' real plan was, but there had been no progress. Even if we foil one of their plots, there will be nothing gained in the end.

Could it be that...their true purpose is to hold a ceremony to summon some unknown existence from the CSK-9602 galaxy, the source of this case?

This seems ridiculous. However, people can go crazy and eventually mutate into monsters after seeing the star map. Even more ridiculous things have happened. Summoning unknown existences through rituals does not seem so ridiculous anymore.

He Wei suddenly remembered something, immediately got up and left, and returned in a hurry.

She retrieved a hard drive. Plug in the computer, open the file, and a video will play.

This was the scene captured by the surveillance system in the ward where Experimental Subject No. 1 was held when the monsters besieged the base that night.

Lu Ming saw Experimental Subject No. 1 kneeling on the ground, looking at his eyeballs, and howling some spell loudly.

An idea came to his mind, and he immediately stepped forward and started operating on the computer. At the same time, he said: "He Wei, bring us the detailed drawings of our base."

"good."

He Wei brought over the detailed drawing data, and Lu Ming had already connected to the star catalog database. After operating for a while, he let out a long breath.

"what have you found?"

Lu Ming murmured: "Look, our base faces due south and north. According to the drawings, the ward where Experimental Subject No. 1 is held is slightly five degrees west. Using the walls of the ward as a reference, we can calculate that Experimental Subject No. 1 was at that time At the time of the 'sacrifice', the central axis of the body was 6.7 degrees westward. The time at that time was around 10:32 pm. Calculated based on the time, the CSK-9602 galaxy at that time was located in this direction of the celestial sphere, exactly at a No. on the extension of the central axis of the body of the subject.

In other words, Experiment 1 was exactly aligned with the CSK-9602 galaxy expansion ceremony at that time. Is this a coincidence? "

He Wei's body shook, and an incredible look immediately appeared on her face.

Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice: "It is indeed possible that it is just a coincidence. This proves nothing."

After all, the source of these monsters is the CSK-9602 galaxy. The rituals being held for this galaxy at this moment may just be some kind of worship, which does not necessarily mean that they are summoning something.

Lu Ming thought for a while and finally said: "I'll contact the people from Sun Yu's team first."

After obtaining the contact information of Sun Yu's team from Lu Qingliang, Lu Ming directly contacted the other party in the name of the Planetary Security Bureau and obtained more detailed information, as well as some of Professor Sun Yu's own opinions.

"My guess is that either the telescope malfunctioned and the wrong data was observed, such as identifying a very distant supernova explosion as a close one, or it was some kind of violent energy release process, uh, an explosion. "

Lu Ming asked: "However, the data shows that it has existed for a long time."

Its existence runs through the entire observation process of the Xunxing Space Telescope.

In the microphone, Professor Sun Yu's voice was also a little troubled: "It is also possible that this energy release process is relatively slow? In fact, I don't know what happened. I applied for another observation, but it needs to be scheduled, about six months. Later, the Starfinder space telescope can be pointed in that direction again, and there may be more data by then."

Lu Ming was silent for a moment and said, "Professor Sun, have you made any new discoveries recently?"

"Well, there is. We have recently analyzed some new data, and the data actually shows that the star is rapidly approaching the inner solar system at a speed of 2,600-4,000 kilometers per second. Haha."

Professor Sun laughed a little embarrassedly and laughed at himself before saying: "This is funny, right? Well, I know there must be something wrong with this, but now there is insufficient data and there is no way to re-measure its speed."

Lu Ming's expression became even more gloomy.

It is indeed unlikely that a star with such a high speed would exist naturally. But at this moment, the situation should not be considered normal.

At a speed of 2,600 kilometers per second and a distance of 150 billion kilometers, it will probably take less than two years to reach the earth.

After considering the language, Lu Ming said: "Professor Sun, this is it. Our Planetary Security Bureau is paying more attention to this star and hopes to obtain more information as soon as possible. In this way, we will come forward to contact the Mercury Space Telescope team and directly jump in. Five The next observation of this star will begin within a few days. Submit an observation plan as soon as possible."

On the other side of the microphone, Professor Sun Yu's voice paused, and then his breathing became rapid: "Five...five days?"

Even if you apply for an observation with a middle-ranked telescope like the Starfinder Space Telescope, you have to wait at least six months. Now, the newly launched and most advanced Mercury space telescope will be available for use by our own side in five days?

"Yes, five days. Also, Professor Sun Yu, if your team's scientific research strength is insufficient, you can submit a report to me. Who needs support and what supplies are missing will be coordinated by our Planetary Security Bureau. Our requirement is to obtain as much information about this star as possible."

From Lu Ming's solemn words, Professor Sun Yu felt that the Planetary Security Bureau attached great importance to this matter. His voice became serious involuntarily: "Okay. Don't worry."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming looked at Lu Qingliang.

"Contact the Mercury team."

Lu Qingliang hesitated for a moment and did not contact him immediately.

"Lu Ming, do you also think that this star may be related to monsters?"

"I am not sure."

Lu Ming rubbed his forehead: "But this star is too weird. We must at least rule it out first."

Lu Qingliang hesitated again, and then said after a moment: "I feel that this star is somewhat similar to a mythical creature called the Color of the Star in the world of Cthulhu."

"Cthulhu again?"

He Wei murmured. Lu Qingliang continued to explain: "In the Cthulhu worldview, the Star Color is a strange mythical creature that is produced outside the visible universe and wanders in the starry sky. It has bright and strange colors that can make organic matter Creatures undergo mental and physical madness and mutation, turning life into various monsters. Well, it usually appears in the form of an interstellar meteorite, but the meteorite is not its body, it is just a parasite on it."

"Wandering in the starry sky?" Lu Ming said to himself: "Interstellar meteorite?"

After thinking for a moment, Lu Ming shook his head, temporarily gave up thinking about the color of the stars, and said instead: "It's better to contact the Mercury team first and observe it first."

"good."

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