Chapter 189: The Source of the Crisis

Since it was speculated that it was a sense of crisis caused by a gamma-ray burst caused by an unknown supernova explosion, Luo Tian unceremoniously and directly borrowed the telescope module of the photon deep space probe on the spacecraft. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Of course, Luo Tian still informed An Ruoxuan that running the photon deep space probe at full power would have a very big impact on the energy flow of the spacecraft.

After receiving Luo Tian's notice, An Ruoxuan immediately started the deceleration program of the spacecraft, and a large amount of energy poured from the propulsion system into the photon deep space probe. The entire Photon Deep Space Probe is fully powered, and the spacecraft carries out slow rotation and circular motion, conducting a large-scale search and investigation of the cosmic starry sky within a range of 10,000 light-years.

Although the maximum detection distance of the photon deep space probe can reach 5 billion light-years, the information obtained in this way is only of scientific value, not of practical value. The target of this exploration is also very clear, that is, a giant star that is about to transform into a supernova. The first target is a massive star 8,000 light-years away, codenamed WR104.

As a red giant star with obvious infrared spectral characteristics, it cannot escape the detection of photon deep space probes at all. Countless photons, invisible to the naked eye, turned into quantum states and jumped wantonly in the starry sky of the universe. The quantum entanglement effect enables the photon deep space probe to quickly obtain first-hand information about the target area.

As a black technology copied from ancient ruins, the Photon Deep Space Probe will generate more than 500 Yao bytes (YB) of data exchange per second when the power is fully turned on, even the gods with quantum intelligent computers as the carrier have a lot of effort to deal with such a huge amount of data exchange. Fortunately, Luo Tian introduced most of the data into his mind and did not add too much burden to the gods.

In just one minute and twenty seconds, Luo Tian obtained an image of WR104 a thousand years ago. At a distance of 8,000 light years, even a quantum of light that jumps and shuttles takes a certain amount of time to cross. If you use any ordinary telescope, you can only get images of the target star 8,000 years ago.

The universe is so vast that a beam of light 8,000 light-years away would have to travel 8,000 years to get here. Gamma-ray bursts are terrifying, but gamma-rays still fail to exceed the speed of light. But when you observe that star is still intact, maybe it has exploded by now. For civilizations that don't have the ability to warn of time and space, it's already too late to see another sun in the sky.

After an hour, Luo Tian finally received a vision of the star WR104 an hour ago. Surprisingly, the star was still burning there as normal. The light quantum near the star relayed the information back through quantum entanglement, with a delay of only one hour, and there were basically no errors.

"It's not it, it's that again?" Luo Tian looked at the star information captured by the Photon Deep Space Probe one by one. While the delay in this information is not just one hour, it is all within a day. Twenty-four hours is not time at all for the activity cycle of stars, and it is basically a way to determine the current state of those stars.

Within 10,000 light-years of the Photon Deep Space Probe, there are more than 10 billion stars. That is, the solar system is at the edge of the Milky Way, otherwise the number of stars would be even higher. A supernova explodes in the Milky Way galaxy about every 50 years, and more than one-fifth of these 10 billion stars are in the process of supernova evolution.

A target of a thousand light-years away Luo Tian was temporarily ruled out, a thousand years was enough time for An Ruoxuan and them to fly out of the range of gamma-ray bursts emitted by supernovas, and only a supernova explosion within a thousand light-years could really threaten the safety of the spacecraft. After narrowing down the scope, Luo Tian investigated faster.

The processing power of Luo Tian's brain has far exceeded anyone's imagination, and the ultra-large-scale data flow has not caused him any discomfort. Soon, Luo Tian discovered an anomaly in a place that he would never have imagined, and this anomaly may be the source of that sense of crisis.

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Proxima Centauri was formed at the same age as α Centauri stars A and B, about 4.85 billion years ago, slightly earlier than the Sun's 4.6 billion years. But because its size is only slightly larger than the critical mass of the star needed 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.

Such a star, which has a life span of more than 5 billion years, is now experiencing erratic and abnormal energy fluctuations. The entire star is like a white dwarf in a binary model, frantically extracting matter and energy from the other two adjacent stars. Proxima Centauri's mass and volume are growing at a very rapid rate, far from the normal evolution of stars.

Luo Tian retrieved the Proxima Centauri data from the database of the gods when he was last drawing the star map, and compared the two, Luo Tian made an astonishing discovery. In less than half a year, Proxima Centauri has increased by two-thousandths in mass and nearly one-thousandth in size. Luo Tian can now be sure that Proxima Centauri should have been tampered with.

To put it bluntly, the problem is still the same as the last time we crossed the asteroid belt, and there was a lack of a real astronomer on board. If there had been an astronomer on board, the Proxima Centauri anomaly would have been detected the last time Proxima Centauri was mapped.

Luo Tian's face is not good-looking now, and they can now be said to be heading towards hell. It doesn't matter who does Proxima Centauri, what matters is whether it can escape the onslaught that is coming. Luo Tian estimated that Proxima Centauri would last for about ten years, and if it hadn't been discovered early, everyone on the "Daystar" spacecraft would have been killed.

If the spacecraft only had the original telescopic equipment of humans, it would be difficult to detect Proxima Centauri's anomalies even if they reached a place of light years away from Proxima Centauri. There are too many relics of civilization on the earth, and the Daystar spaceship can be said to be condensed from the essence of many civilization relics.

Now that the anomaly has been discovered, Luo Tian will not sit idly by. Or change your course and turn to other star fields; Otherwise, move forward bravely and let Luo Tian solve those problems with his own hands. At a distance of less than five light years, Luo Tian is also a matter of space shuttle four or five times. Luo Tian felt that with his current ability, it was not too difficult to extinguish a star.

How to do it, Luo Tian did not act arbitrarily. The relevant information was directly transmitted to An Ruoxuan's mind, and he wanted to see what An Ruoxuan thought about it. If you really need to make a move on Proxima Centauri, you can do it at any time. Without the test of battle, Luo Tian really doesn't know how powerful he is now.