What are stars?

Different people, the answer will be different, varied, and strange.

Some people will tell you that it is the most cleansing scene of people's hearts, and some people will tell you that it is the reflection or emission of light from various objects such as stars and planets.

He prefers to use a series of parameters, valuations, and data to describe the starry sky above their heads.

It was his lifelong dream to build a complete data map of the Eli system.

Planetary observation has been around for a long time, and people have built a simple group of galaxy models according to different directions, just like our solar system, in fact, people generally call the big fireball hanging in the sky and glowing [Eli], just to make it easier for everyone to understand, I will translate it as "sun", Albert called it the sun is completely a matter of habit, Cecilia called it purely because of the habit of being infected by staying next to him for a long time.

In the entire Otherworld, or the solar system of the Otherworld, there are currently six known planets.

In addition to the sun and Cedras, which nurtured all living things, there are three solid planets of different sizes, such as Mobido, Cyberpunk, Tias, and two gas giants, Como and Dimia, as well as an asteroid belt called [Meier X], and an [Arthur-DSA] nebula composed of countless meteorites that wraps around the Eli system, just like the Oort Nebula in our solar system.

In the absence of outer space observation, it takes a lot of time and effort to build a model.

And because of the rotation of the planet, the astronomical predecessors once had a little misunderstanding, yes, that is, the heliocentric theory and the geocentric theory, but until now, the heliocentric theory and the geocentric theory have been falsified.

As an astrologer, what he has to do is to guard this astronomical research station, measure the parameters of the planet and some comet meteorites that have completed a cycle of operation and returned again, with the help of this huge telescope about eight meters high, fourteen meters long, which can adjust the bearing, and the thickest part is more than one meter, Barnum can see a lot of things in this mountaintop covering an area of hundreds of square meters.

The research station is quiet for most of the year, with no one coming except for senior personnel and visitors who come to retrieve the record files.

He loved the environment.

After all, as long as the required indicators are done and the data is recorded, this is equivalent to his, don't move the facilities and equipment, don't move the building, he can do anything, when he is free, he can drink two cups of coffee, play mini golf, read books or videos, and have many memories of him here, so he is still a little reluctant to know that he will have to leave after a while.

At the age of two hundred and thirty this year, he has worked here for two hundred years, a well-deserved old qualification, and there are still twenty years, this talent is not up to standard, and the old wizard with a life limit of three hundred years can retire, and he is planning to write a book of his work experience notes for the next successor, hoping to help the next generation.

In fact, he could have applied to leave hundreds of years ago, but he chose to stay, Barnum, and spent his life here.

But he doesn't regret it, he thinks the time he's spent is meaningful.

The old man still remembers what the teacher who led him to this line of work was like, he was a good man, he was very serious at work, he could be called harsh, but he was very casual during his breaks, he liked to joke, he barely remembered, the first meeting between the wizard who occasionally scolded two swear words and told a yellow joke, and looked about thirty years old.

As far back as I can remember, he was sent here after graduating with honors after he submitted an application form to observe the stars or become an observer's assistant.

She stood at the door of the observatory, her blonde hair was a little messy, her fair facial skin was still a little inkstained at some point, she wore a pair of black-framed eyes, two dark circles under her eyes were unusually obvious, she was wearing a white doctor's gown, yawning, looking at him lazily, squinting slightly and asking, "You are my assistant?"

He used to be an assistant and had a full schedule every day, and the ninety-year-old woman was a workaholic, so his rest time was compressed a lot.

Every day of his life is like being wound up, and every step is done according to the plan.

Then, day by day, this assistant position, he did for ten years.

No, no, no, of course, they didn't have any "long-term love", just because they got acquainted with each other a lot, the relationship changed a little, their relationship began to become like a sister and brother, and a bit like buddies, telling jokes to each other, exchanging small movie resources with each other [magic energy projector], during rare holidays, he was often dragged to the tavern under the mountain to drink until dawn the next day, and he had a splitting headache and vomited in the dark, and now I think about it, it is really nostalgic.

And then those things are over.

The man was very good, and she was definitely a strange woman among a large number of astrologers and submitted her resignation, because she was getting married, and that day, she brought a man who was also in his early thirties, and then the man was taken by the two of them to the tavern for a drink, and the three of them drank together until they vomited, and for that "farewell party", Barnum skipped a day's work.

He blessed them from the bottom of his heart, turned his head and took over the vacant position vacated by the resignation of the female senior, day after day, year after year, and the time passed amazingly.

The story after that can be regarded as happy. END, he also has children and a family, but he has never left his job, although he has saved his salary because of this unit, he has been able to buy a house, he still did not leave his job.

For him, astronomy is not just a research project, it is a lifelong hobby.

He plans to buy a monocular telescope after he leaves his job and take it out at night to look at the stars, maybe because of the difference in location and function, he can't see the planets as clearly as he can see now, but at least it will make him feel good.

He would keep looking at it until one day, on a cloudless night, Barnum was sitting in his yard with an astronomical telescope beside him, his eyes closed, with a peaceful smile, the moonlight shining softly on his body, and the domestic cat jumping on his knees, but he did not reach out and stroke its fur as gently and slowly as usual, and then it realized something, and let out a miserable howl, which attracted others, and his soul stood beside his own body, watching his relatives panic, looking back on his life, leaving no regrets, and nothing to entrust, and the self that was satisfied with his life dissipated。

That was the ending he wanted most.