A week after the Alpha Centauri Planetary Environment Research Project team discovered a suspected planetary signal. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On Kokolas Island, the Pacific base of the Interstellar Exploration Alliance, in the core area super laboratory.

Hara is taking the trouble to observe the results of the latest collision experiments of the Large Hadron Collision Accelerator.

"The 1268th proton collision experiment, no special findings." Li Yueqing said with great disappointment.

At this moment, Li Yueqing and Hathaway are also in the super laboratory, because the two of them have also encountered the problem of needing to collide with the speed of light (approach) of elementary particles.

Another member of the project team, Carrey Bai, continues to study the relationship between electromagnetic force and gravity.

Yuan Haochen's expression was indifferent, expressionless, and there was not the slightest joy or anger on his face.

"Do these tiny particles really exist that are almost imaginary?"

Yuan Haochen thought to himself in his heart, he was not sure about this.

The accelerator was preparing for a new round of experiments, when suddenly, Yuan Chen's satellite phone rang.

"It's Durunik." Yuan Haochen answered the phone.

"Haha, good news for you." On the other end of the phone rang Durunike's rather excited voice.

"What's the good news?"

"The research project is progressing!"

"Oh!" Yuan Haochen quickly raised his interest.

"We've found clues to the existence of planets in the Alpha Centauri system!"

"Are you sure? I won't make another oolong! ”

Yuan Haochen could keenly perceive that Durunik's tone this time was much more determined than when he contacted him before.

"I'm more than 90% sure!" Audibly, Trunik was answering with a pretending of modesty.

"Well done!!" Yuan Haochen immediately praised.

"Do you need me to send all the data back to base?" Durunik then asked.

"No, I'll go to the observatory tomorrow." Yuan Haochen had already made a decision in his heart.

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The next morning, after giving a brief report to Dean Frank at the weekly meeting of the Institute of Astrophysics, Hara immediately set off for the Maunaki Mountain Observatory in Hawaii.

He decided to hand over the work of the elementary particle collision experiment to Li Yueqing and Hathaway for the time being, and went to the observatory to see the specific situation first.

By the time Hara arrived at the Maunaki volcano in Hawaii, it was already approaching evening.

Hara took a helicopter over the sea of clouds and stopped on the tarmac around the observatory at the top of the mountain.

At this time, the sky around the observatory had already turned into a world of extreme orange and red.

Stepping out of the cabin, what jumped into Yuan Haochen's eyes was the top of a volcano and a beautiful sunset above the sea of clouds.

Durukik and five other members of the extraterrestrial civilization project team, as well as several main officials in charge of the observatory, immediately greeted him when they saw him.

Yuan Haochen looked around at the magnificent natural scenery around the mountain peak, and said with emotion: "Your working environment is really outrageous!! ”

"Haha~" Durunik and the others laughed without saying a word.

"It's no wonder that so many people choose to participate in the Alpha Centauri Planetary Environment Research Project." Yuan Haochen shook his head and smiled.

"Welcome to our observatory!" One by one, several officials in charge of the observatory stepped forward to shake hands with Yuan Haochen.

"Thank you for your support of our work!" Yuan Haochen said with a smile.

After a period of greetings, Yuan Haochen came to the work area of the project team under the guidance of Durunik.

"This suspected planetary signal has been confirmed by observatories in 12 different regions, as well as four space telescopes." Durunik and other members of the project team introduced to Hara.

"Show me the observations." Yuan Haochen nodded and said.

"We also used a variety of methods to carry out observation verification." Trunik added.

"Have you figured out the exact size of the planet?" Yuan Haochen asked as he flipped through it.

"According to observational data, the planet is about 125% the volume of the Earth, 1.1 times denser than the Earth, and it is also a rocky planet." The members of the project team who first discovered the suspected signal of the planet seriously introduced it to Hara Haochen.

"Very good." Yuan Haochen thought for a moment and continued to ask, "What about the orbit?" ”

"This is a planet that orbits Alpha Centauri A, which we named Alpha Centauri Aa. Its orbital radius cannot be precisely determined, but we estimate that it is at least 1.2 billion kilometers or more, and the orbital period could be as long as 15 years. ”

"A tundra planet!!"

Yuan Haochen said quite unexpectedly: "It is the same as the position of Saturn in the solar system. However, the mass of Alpha Centauri AA is on the small side, and the orbit and orbit and orbit period are somewhat unusual, which should be affected by the gravitational pull of Alpha Centauri B. ”

"Yes, team leader, we estimate that the surface temperature of this planet is between -210C~-160C."

"The interior of the Alpha Centauri system is too complex, and unfortunately we can't observe it directly." Durunik said regretfully.

"Relying on our existing equipment, it would be tantamount to a dream to directly observe the planets inside the Alpha star system." Yuan Haochen shook his head and continued, "Especially if there are three stars, the brightness of the planets there is estimated to be less than one billionth of a billionth of the star!" ”

"Hao Chen, if our observations don't have much way out, then this permafrost planet should be unlikely to be the home of the Creator."

Trunik seems to be somewhat unhappy with this result.

"Not necessarily, we should think in two directions." Yuan Haochen has a different opinion on this.

"First, in the complex Alpha Centauri tristar system, the orbits of the planets are certainly not constant, and they are subject to the gravitational pull of the other two stars at any time. Perhaps 2.1 billion years ago, Alpha Centauri was still in the habitable zone, a habitable terrestrial planet. Second, since we have discovered a planet, it proves that there must be other planets in the Alpha Centauri system, so you need to keep up the good work!! ”

(Alpha Centauri C, or Proxima Centauri, was formed at the same age as Alpha Centauri A and B, about 4.85 billion years ago, slightly earlier than the Sun's 4.6 billion years.) It is currently a red dwarf, and the probability of planetary existence is much smaller than that of stars A and B. Because its size is only slightly larger than the critical mass of the star required to produce the hydrogen fusion reaction, the rate of the fusion reaction is slow and unstable, so astronomers estimate that it can live more than 10 billion years. ）

"Yes, there must be other planets in the system, and maybe we can find new rocky planets in the habitable zone."

At this moment, all project personnel are full of confidence.

If there are rocky planets in the habitable zone of the Alpha Centauri star system, it means that humanity has the potential to create a habitable environment on it.

It will surely become the destination of mankind's first interstellar voyage!

(To be continued.) )