Earth, geosynchronous orbit.

Deep Sky 4 Large Orbital Astronomical Telescope.

This is the fourth-generation orbital astronomical telescope built by China for the implementation of the deep space plan, the second-generation practical orbital astronomical telescope, which is not only a large telescope, but also a small space station, which can accommodate a team of less than 10 people for a long time.

The era of the inner universe, that is, out of the earth, has not yet gone out of the solar system abbreviation, the population explosion of the habitation and environmental pressure, forcing countries to work hard to develop space immigration work, the successful transformation of Mars and a large number of immigrants, is a milestone for mankind to enter the universe age, but Mars is not the only immigrant planet that has entered the sight of mankind.

As early as the 21st century, mankind has discovered dozens of habitable planets in close proximity, but the so-called close is only for astronomical distance, the distance of tens of light years is nothing in the diameter of 100,000 light years in the Milky Way, but for human beings, Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.22 light years away from the solar system, is also an unattainable distance.

China, which is ahead of all other countries in aerospace technology, has set its sights on distant habitable satellites hundreds of millions of kilometers away and must describe the distance in light years.

Deep space planning is a huge plan to find habitable planets with ecosystems and carry out long-distance interstellar migration to habitable planets.

It is no exaggeration to say that Deep Sky 4 is the highest magnification and the highest precision orbital astronomical telescope built by mankind so far.

After the Skynet plan entered the implementation stage, Deep Space 4 immediately stationed nine astronomers with military backgrounds, who replaced the original staff and divided into three shifts, searching for suspicious targets in the universe 24 hours a day.

"Team leader, I'm a little unsure about this, I've been on camera for two days in a row." The youngest, Wang Yue, is only forty-two years old, and although he is one of the well-known experts in astronomy, he is also an apprentice compared to the other eight authoritative experts in resources.

"I'll see." Team leader Xie Guohui, nearly 60 years old, one of the current controllers of deep space planning, because the goal of deep space planning is a close galaxy, the distance is more than ten or twenty light years, and the distance is more than 100 light years at most, so he is currently one of the astronomers who know the most about the surrounding star fields of the solar system, the deep space planning team, and also the technical team that knows the surrounding star fields the most.

Deep space planning has been going on for more than forty years, and no one is better suited to find awkwardness on the star charts than them.

Team Leader Xie's fingers tapped on the position pointed out by Wang Yue, and nodded: "Its movement speed is a bit extraordinary, and it is not a comet, how can it go so far in the lens?" Is there a zoomed-in image? "The angle of Deep Sky 4 is fixed, four hours around the celestial sphere, this picture has just been taken, the lens has left there, if you don't zoom in on the image, you can only zoom in once the next time the lens illuminates this star.

"Yes!" Wang Yue hurriedly replied, "I took two photos on purpose." ”

After saying that, he called up the magnified star map, and Team Leader Xie carefully distinguished it for a moment: "This is an asteroid group?" Weird. Have you ever calculated its distance? ”

"It's just been two days since I found out, and the data is insufficient."

"Then contact Mars and make up the data as soon as possible!" Team Leader Xie's order cannot be questioned.

Earth and Mars are now located exactly on opposite sides of the Sun, and with data compensation, they can be used to calculate the distance of the stars.

Wang Yue immediately sent the data to Mars, and Mars did not dare to slack off when it received the data, so it immediately organized people to measure and send the results back to Earth as quickly as possible.

After more than an hour of anxious waiting, Wang Yue finally got the data before the end of the rotation, and the computer quickly got the distance data of the star, and the frightened Wang Yue stared at him in horror: "Team leader, this asteroid is 0.46 light years away from the solar system, at the current rate, 20 months, no, maybe it won't take so long, it will reach the solar system!" ”

"What?" Team Leader Xie was shocked, a group of asteroids flying towards the solar system had subverted his knowledge, and it was still so close, how could it be?

The universe is not a playground, although the sky is full of stars at night, but the distance between stars is often tens of light years, and the relationship between stars is like a handful of sand thrown into the sea.

The asteroid itself wandering in the interstellar world is a very incredible thing, you must know that the solar system is also constantly moving, and the asteroid group is also constantly moving at high speed, and the chance of the two meeting is much smaller than the chance of two random shots and the bullet hitting in the air.

In other words, it's almost impossible to happen, and if you don't do astronomy, you won't be aware of the strangeness at all.

Team Leader Xie thought about it for five seconds and made up his mind: "Immediately report the data to the Ministry of Defense and request the Saturn base to assist in the observation." "Deep Sky 4 is the largest orbital telescope, but not the largest.

At present, the largest astronomical telescope is the Deep Space 7 installed on the Saturn base, the third generation of deep space series telescopes, the observation conditions of Saturn's orbit are more superior, and the Saturn base is the only space base with long-term personnel stationed, so there is no doubt that the Deep Space 7 will fall on the Saturn base.

Deep Space Seven, nicknamed the Eye of the Solar System by the folks, shows its strong ability.

But so far, Deep Space 7 has only completed the assembly of the main structure, and the supporting equipment is not all in place, so there is no problem in making simple observations, but when it comes to data analysis, it is a mess.

It takes time to contact the Saturn base, and it takes even more time for the superiors to make a decision, whether it is Wang Yue or Xie Guohui, they can only wait patiently for news.

Three days later, Deep Space 4 received feedback from the Ministry of Defense, which included text descriptions, a large amount of picture data, and even a short video.

In the video, a round dwarf planet is moving slowly, and Team Leader Xie said that the distance between it and the shooting camera is very close, because although the asteroid is fixed in the center of the lens, the starry sky in the background is moving slowly.

Dwarf planets are surrounded by countless small celestial bodies, some of which are always flying at equal distances, and some of which are constantly traveling between dwarf planets and accompanying asteroids, which are obviously not a group of dead asterisms, but an active system!

This inference is also confirmed by the additional textual notes.

Deep Space Seven is too powerful, and on several other high-resolution photos, all kinds of magnified images emerge one after another, and the Outer Bone Battleship that has fought against the human fleet is impressively on it.

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