Chapter 180: The Ninth Planet
If humans were able to fly to the edge of the solar system far beyond Pluto in a spaceship, some strange things would be seen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoWhen a spacecraft flies over the Kuiper Belt full of asteroids, it will suddenly encounter a vast void, like driving up a mountain and suddenly falling into a cliff.
Astronomers call a demarcation point at the edge of the solar system the "Kuiper Belt Cliff" because of the sudden decrease in the number of rocks that are too abrupt. What triggers this bizarre phenomenon? The only explanation is the existence of the ninth planet. However, this planet is not just a quaor or a sedna, but a star the size of Earth or Mars, whose gravitational pull swept through all the space rock debris in the region.
As time progressed, the Rising Star spacecraft gradually penetrated deep into the interior of the Kuiper Belt. Before the destruction of the Earth, the scientific community had been trying to find the true ninth planet in the solar system inside the Kuiper Belt, but there had been no accurate results, conjectures continued, and there was no convincing evidence.
According to the photon deep space probe, An Ruoxuan is sure that the spacecraft has reached the legendary "Kuiper Belt Cliffs". Of course, even to the "Kuiper Belt Cliffs", the surroundings have not changed much. The so-called asteroid is nothing more than a cosmic space scale, and it still looks like an eternal void to the naked eye.
Even if human estimation suggests that the mass of the so-called ninth planet may be 2 to 5 times that of the Earth, it is still not worth mentioning in the vast starry sky. It is more difficult to find a planet in the starry sky that is far away from the sun and does not shine than to find a stealth nuclear submarine in the earth's ocean with just an anti-submarine aircraft.
An Ruoxuan is not sure whether she can meet that mysterious planet, as the first human to reach the earth here, if she can see the legendary ninth planet, it will be her luck. An Ruoxuan turned on the photon deep space detection equipment to the maximum and waited for good luck to come.
For the legendary ninth planet, Luo Tian was clear in his heart. With him as the center, all the wind and grass within a radius of one light year, Luo Tian knew everything about it. Among the many comets and asteroids, a huge planet is still very conspicuous. Of course, this kind of conspicuousness was only for Luo Tian's telekinetic realm.
In the extraterrestrial starry sky of Luo Tian's telekinetic world, there was no location for the ninth planet. It's not that the ninth planet doesn't exist, it's that the ninth planet that humans have been searching for should not exist. It was a star that shouldn't have existed naturally, an artificial metal planet that had not formed naturally.
The planet is five times the size of Earth, but only three times the mass. The entire planet's surface is covered by permafrost ice sheets more than 150 meters thick, and the extremely low temperatures make those ice sheets even stronger than steel. The planet is powered by a force beyond human comprehension, constantly orbiting the outer reaches of the solar system.
It is impossible for An Ruoxuan to encounter that star, the artificial planet body has been disintegrated into cosmic dust by the telekinesis, and Luo Tian also copied one in his telekinesis world according to the proportions, and was placed by Luo Tian in the endless void at the bottom of the telekinesis world.
In fact, the artificial star has long since been reduced to a ruin, and only the power system and jamming system are still operating. The thick ice sheet that later condensed on the surface of the planet largely retained its original interior, and Luo Tian found a lot of key information from those wreckage, and that information solved a lot of unsolved mysteries about aliens.
Alien visitors from the ancient Earth, life that disappeared on Mars, the planet that disintegrated into the asteroid belt and left behind mysterious crystals, the "asteroid" that crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago and wiped out most of the living beings, human beings were able to detect a planet 15 billion light-years away but never found any signs of extraterrestrial civilization.
All of the above problems are related to the star that has been disintegrated into cosmic dust by Luo Tian, or the alien civilization that controls that star. The solar system is like a common ecological sphere, except that the ecological sphere is isolated from the fish by a layer of glass, and the solar system is blocked by unknown technology.
If the earth had not been destroyed now, the human beings on the earth would have found that the universe seen from the earth now was almost completely different from before, and the entire universe was like a noisy battlefield or market, rather than as quiet and silent as it had been detected in the past. Without the camouflage and interference of the non-star body, humanity has been able to explore the real universe, but now everything has come to naught.
The maximum detection range of the photon deep space probe carried by the "Daystar" spacecraft is only five light years, but the accuracy in the detection range of these five light years can be accurate meters, mainly for star mapping and risk avoidance. Of course, An Ruoxuan will not turn on the maximum range of detection when it is not necessary, and the energy consumption of the photon deep space probe is very amazing.
For a long time, human deep-space probes were able to observe distances of more than 15 billion light-years, but the accuracy was not suitable for interstellar navigation. For An Ruoxuan now, even opening the detection distance of one light year is a waste, and the detection range of the photon deep space probe is only ten astronomical units, which is enough for the small spacecraft of the Morning Star.
The farthest detection distance on the "Daystar" spacecraft is a long-range module under the Photon Deep Space Probe, which can detect up to 5 billion light-years and the imaging accuracy is far greater than that of the James Webb Space Telescope, which can observe a scene 20 billion light-years away.
An Ruoxuan did not start the telescope module, because there is no fundamental breakthrough in technology, it is still necessary to aim the telescope module at the target when using it. The ship was now moving at high speed, and there was no need to stop and turn. The existence of the ninth planet was not so important to her, at least not as important as the energy sources.
Not finding any worthy targets, An Ruoxuan was not surprised at all. If the earth still exists, if she is the only one on the spacecraft, maybe An Ruoxuan will turn on the photon deep space probe to scan it at full power. But now that the earth is gone, and there are other people on the spaceship, An Ruoxuan will not waste precious energy for an illusory goal.
In this way, the "Daystar" spacecraft successfully passed through the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system. Soon, the spacecraft will be out of the range of the solar wind and reach the boundary of the solar system. There, the violent collision between the solar wind and interstellar matter has been going on for nearly five billion years. If there are no accidents, collisions will continue to exist for the next five billion years.