Voyage of the Stars

"Jupiter is missing? How is that possible!"

Yue Yuan's first reaction after receiving the news in the base was that it was impossible. Although the solar explosion was powerful, Jupiter was so massive and far enough away that it could not be pushed away.

"Sorry, my expression was inaccurate. It's not that Jupiter has disappeared, but that the tidal locking of Callisto has been broken." Gan De, who came to tell Yue Yuan the news, gave an apologetic expression and explained, "Further judgment More data are needed.”

"Are you doing it?" Yue Yuan stood up anxiously.

"It's being done. The larger telescope is being transported. Xiao Zhang from the Department of Astronomy immediately followed up after discovering the situation. Calculating the time, we should almost have the first batch of observation parameters. We will know the details soon. The situation is over." Gander touched his newly cut sparse white hair and said calmly.

Yue Yuan was very satisfied with this efficiency. He nodded and said, "Let's go to the data center."

After saying that, he took the lead to walk out of the office, but when he reached the door, he paused, turned around and told Zhu Pi Te in the office: "Pete, the work of returning to the ground cannot stop. Follow up on this matter and do everything well. The departments will coordinate and work together to strive to build various facilities on the ground as soon as possible."

"yes!"

After giving the explanation, Yue Yuan strode towards the temporary data center of the base.

Gander followed.

Not long after, the two arrived at the data center on the ground floor. As soon as they entered the door, they saw a large group of staff busy processing data. They moved back and forth in the large data center, transferred files, and discussed the data. What I understand seems chaotic, but it is orderly.

Yue Yuan waved to the crowd and nodded to tell them to continue what they were doing without being polite. Then he and Gan De walked through the crowd and went straight to the astronomical data receiving station.

Arriving at the data receiving station, Gander directly spoke to the woman on the operating table: "Xiaoyu, has the data been transmitted?"

"Dr. Gan, you are here!" Hearing Gan De's voice, the woman known as Xiaoyu turned around to say hello first, but found that Yue Yuan was also there, so she looked solemn and said: "Basic Director, you are also here. !”

"Well," Yue Yuan nodded to the woman, then pointed to the data receiving station and said, "Let's get down to business."

Xiaoyu was about thirty years old, with short shoulder-length hair and well-maintained skin. She looked like a girl in her early twenties. She turned around and operated the data desk and said: "The first batch of data has been Send it back for you to look at, Doctor."

After one operation, pieces of data were switched out and displayed on the large screen.

Gander stared at the screen closely, but the more he looked at it, the tighter his brows became.

Yue Yuan saw his expression and felt that something was not going well. Sure enough, the next moment he saw Gan De raising his head and closing his eyes, taking a deep breath, and slowly opened his eyes while sighing: "The situation is far worse than predicted! "

Before Yue Yuan could speak, Gan De continued: "During the preliminary observations, we just thought that Jupiter's tidal lock on Callisto was broken, and the side where our base is located just turned around, facing the dark universe. That’s all. But judging from the data from this further observation, it’s much more than that.”

Much more than that?

Yue Yuan was shocked and said hurriedly: "Tell me more specifically."

It's not that Yue Yuan doesn't have the eyes to see for himself, but what's displayed on the screen now is a series of initial data and some very professional curves. This kind of data that has not been processed twice or three times is still difficult for non-professionals to see. I really can't understand it.

Gander also realized this, so he ordered Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, import the data into the celestial simulation system, and adjust the time to thirty times the speed."

"OK."

Xiaoyu opened the celestial simulation software very quickly, and then imported the data one by one into the system very skillfully.

Yue Yuan saw that the large screen display was switched to a dynamic 3D simulation video of the solar system. With the movements of the small fish, the solar system simulation system that was originally operating normally began to change.

First, the brightness of the sun suddenly increased, and the bright light of more than 20 magnitudes occupied the entire screen. After the strong light exploded, as the number of frames was refreshed, a red, white, and yellow cloud-like object quickly moved from the original position of the sun. Expansion, diffusion.

As the solar explosion spread, Mercury, Venus, and the Earth were directly engulfed in the blazing ocean, and then completely disappeared from the screen. The orbit of Mars turned into a dust cloud, and then its name was erased from the simulation system. Go, the asteroid belt was blown away completely.

The super strong solar wind formed by the sun's explosion turned from white to blue, sweeping outwards one after another. It was like a demon, expanding in the starry sky, swallowing up all its original children.

After the powerful explosion swept away, only the names of a few giant gaseous planets hung alone among the fiery clouds.

Death replay!

Seeing this, Yue Yuan felt very uncomfortable. This was not appreciating the wonders of the universe, but accepting mental torture.

He endured the sadness and moved his gaze outward, finding the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.

Jupiter is still there, but it seems to be much brighter.

Judging from the data, Jupiter's surface temperature soared directly from -164 degrees Celsius, exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius in two days, and continued to increase until it reached the highest value of 17,900 degrees Celsius on the eighteenth day. Then it keeps hovering around this temperature.

Jupiter, on fire.

At the same time, its mass is slowly decreasing, which shows that Jupiter's atmosphere is being blown away by the super strong solar wind. In contrast, in the following time, Jupiter's surface temperature also slowly dropped.

More than two months later, its surface temperature fell back to below 10,000 degrees Celsius and slowly dropped. After four and a half years of cooling, its surface temperature will fall back to below zero degrees Celsius again as the space temperature decreases.

Its mass is constantly getting smaller, but as the temperature decreases, the mass blown away will slowly be stopped, and eventually stabilize within a certain value, which is about 30% of the original mass.

This is because Jupiter is a gas giant system and its gas mass is severely lost.

Yue Yuan looked carefully at the local details. At this moment, he discovered that Jupiter's orbit was represented by a solid coil and a dotted arc.

Nodding secretly, he knew what it meant. The solid circle represented Jupiter's original orbit, and the dotted line was Jupiter's new orbit after the change. Not only the orbit representation became a solid line and a dotted line, but the rotation axis was also marked with a solid line and a dotted line.

This shows that not only has Jupiter's orbit changed, but its rotation axis has also tilted at a certain angle.

This is not only true of Jupiter, but also of Saturn.

Yue Yuan searched on the screen, but found no trace of Callisto in the original orbit of Jupiter, so he said aloud: "Where is Callisto?"

"Here." Gander pointed to the dark place on the screen and asked Xiaoyu to mark it out and make it a conspicuous bright spot.

As a string of constantly changing numbers appeared, Yue Yuan saw the small bright spot.

"This" Yue Yuan frowned.