Chapter 52: Exploring the Protostar
In the quiet starry sky, asteroids constantly burn their souls and provide people with plenty of nourishment. Ships sail in an orderly manner, min, and salvage, digging for the treasures left by the development star, and the spaceport is constantly swallowing resources, processing countless materials into ships.
Not far behind, the small stones waited quietly for the mining ships to be collected, as if their mission was to dedicate themselves to transforming them into countless industrial products.
Even the dust and gas are willingly sucked in by the ships that travel back and forth, and they will eventually become part of many warships.
Perhaps only the distant development star is quietly watching all this, it is constantly metamorphosing, trying to accumulate matter, heat itself up, until it can autonomously carry out hydrogen nuclear fusion and ignite itself completely.
The current luminescence phenomenon is mainly due to gravitational contraction rather than nuclear fusion, and the pressure inside the developing star prevents itself from collapsing under gravity, but the temperature required to maintain the pressure radiates through its surface.
After all, its core temperature is less than 8 million degrees, and it is impossible to carry out nuclear fusion on its own.
So, it's just the fourth stage of the protostar.
In fact, this is a very suitable time for close observation and exploration of a star, although the star is not very stable, and there are often energy storms and material jets, but in general, its energy radiation is not as good as that of the main-sequence star.
Moreover, its temperature is also much lower than that of main-sequence stars, and it will be much less difficult to detect.
At the unanimous request of various scientific research institutes, Liu Wei decided to conduct a close-range exploration of the satellite.
However, the development star is a star after all, and even if it is a baby, it is not easy to mess with.
Of course, as a test trip, Liu Wei only sent a patrol boat.
Development A is 200 million kilometers away from the development star, but it is not far for a patrol boat traveling at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per second.
Of course, even in a star system, navigation is boring, and the scenery around it changes unpleasantly, first the disappearance of the fleet, then the disappearance of the asteroid swarm, and finally the light of the development star gradually envelops the starry sky.
It's dawn.
In about an hour, the patrol boat was only 20 million kilometers away from the star. Looking at it here, this star is as big as a skyscraper, and people can only receive the scorching light when they stand in front of it, and there is no warm golden light at all.
It's like hell on earth, and the dazzling light is like a sharp sword constantly piercing the starry sky, as if it wants to sweep everything, this is the area closer to the orbit of Mercury, and it is an absolute forbidden area for life.
The hot stream of high-energy particles swept away everything, but it was easily carried by this small patrol boat, and such a little energy could not cause any ripples in the particle protection layer at all.
The star did not burn enough, the rice grain tissue on the surface was not obvious enough, and there was a large area that was relatively dull, as if it was covered in a cocoon, and it was not able to breathe freely.
Moreover, the pulsation of the star is relatively obvious, as if a living person is breathing, and the body is lying together, as if it has life.
It is also not round enough, and even has a bulge in some parts. Its color also tends to red, which is the baby's tender skin.
After all, the development star is still a protostar.
The patrol boat continued to move forward, but its speed gradually slowed down, and one picture after another, one by one, kept coming back to Development A.
The patrol boat temporarily stopped at a distance of 5 million kilometers, where the development star has completely occupied half of the starry sky, and the strong gravitational pull of the patrol boat wants to pull it towards the bottomless abyss.
There are countless poisonous snakes that leap from the development star to the sky, but they no longer fall back, as if they want to gnaw at everything. This is the material ejection of the development star, and it is forced to lose a large amount of matter in order to seek its own complete stability.
It is now almost impossible to navigate in curvature, and under the influence of that star, the curvature of space in this region is so great that patrol boats are trapped in the gravitational trap of the developing star, and it is difficult to extricate themselves.
The area was already dangerous, with powerful electromagnetic radiation preventing the patrol boats from taking further view, and a huge tide of energy wanted to drown the little spot in the scorching sea.
However, when this villain faced a giant, he did not forget to provoke.
The little man moved, and it moved very quickly, rushing straight towards the giant like a streamer.
It seemed that the fall was unstoppable, and the patrol boat fell from 5 million kilometers to 1 million kilometers, then to 500,000 kilometers, and finally stopped at 100,000 kilometers.
100,000 kilometers away from such a star is no different from landing on it, and a violent whirlwind swept through the patrol boat, making it tremble; The tide of energy continued to lap the patrol boat, causing its particle stream protection layer to shake violently, and energy consumption to rise sharply.
Here, the 360-degree starry sky is scorching light, and the patrol boat seems to have drilled into the belly of the star, and will never see the beautiful night again.
At this time, the patrol boat may still survive, but its mission keeps it going, and it pounces on the flames like a warrior, and is not a moth that is not afraid of fire.
It may have known its fate, but it continued to sail. Every time it gets closer, the particle protection layer trembles more and more, and in this regard, the technology that mankind is proud of is like duckweed in the sea, which can be drowned by the tide at any time.
However, since it was determined to die, with its high speed of 50,000 kilometers, it was still able to directly crash into the giant's chest within 2 seconds, collecting a lot of first-hand information, but unfortunately, the particle protection layer of this patrol boat was directly shattered.
Without the defense of the particle protection layer, the patrol boat is more fragile than ever, although the picomi material can easily withstand thousands of degrees of high temperatures, and even millions of degrees of material jets, but it is a huge torrent of energy that disintegrates the patrol boat.
This flood can ignore the hard shell of the patrol boat and directly pack it away, and the patrol boat keeps struggling, but like a grasshopper shaking a tree, after a while, it is completely submerged by the gaseous tide and disappears into the sea of stellar gas.
All that was left was the surging heat of gas and the constant ejection of hot plasma columns, the scarlet surface as if to mock the patrol boat's insignificance.
Still, in the event that all observation equipment fails, quantum communication will allow the ship to relay more information to the fleet. The patrol boat had crashed into the stars and was rapidly descending, it was under tremendous pressure as well as the heat, and the tough pimi armor struggled to keep the hull from being overwhelmed by the dense tide of energy around it.
Of course, even the hardest rocks will be pierced by the waves, and after dozens of minutes, the patrol boat is completely lost.
Although the patrol boat has sunk, its life has been exchanged for a lot of first-hand information, which can give people a deeper understanding of the Taurus T-type star, and then promote the growth of physics and astronomy.
It's well worth it.