A week after the Alpha Centauri Planetary Environment Research Project Team appears suspected planetary signal. Chinese website

In Cocolas Island, the Pacific Base of the Star Exploration Alliance, the core regional laboratory.

Hara Shin-chen was trying hard to observe the latest collision experiment results of the large hasron colliding adder.

"The 1268th proton collision experiment has no special appearance." Li Yueqing said in great disappointment.

At this moment, Li Yueqing and Hathaway are also in the level laboratory, because they also encountered the problem of elementary particle light (close) collision in their research.

Another project team member, Bai Kairui, is continuing to study the correlation between electromagnetic force and gravity.

Yuan Shichen looked calm and had no expression, and there was no trace of joy and anger on his face.

"Does these tiny particles that are almost imagined out of thin air really exist?"

Yuan Shichen thought to himself, and he was not sure about it.

The adder was preparing for a new round of experiments, and suddenly, Yuan Shichen's satellite phone rang.

"It's Durunik." Hara Shin-chen answered the phone.

"Haha, let me tell you good news." Durunik's quite excited voice rang out from the other end of the phone.

“What good news?”

“The research project has progressed!”

"Oh!" Yuan Shichen quickly became interested.

"We have already found clues about the existence of planets in the Alpha Centaurus!"

"Are you sure? You won't make another mistake!"

Yuan Shichen could keenly sense that Durunik's tone this time was much more certain than when he contacted him before.

"You're more than 90% sure!" It could be heard that Durunik was answering modestly.

"Beautiful job!!" Yuan Shichen praised immediately.

"Do I need to send all the information back to the base?" Durunik continued.

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

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

He decided to temporarily hand over the elementary particle collision experiment to Li Yueqing and Hathaway, and go to the observatory to see the specific situation first.

By the time Yuan Naichen arrived at the Maunaki Volcano in Hawaii, it was already approaching evening.

Yuan Shichen took a helicopter across the sea of ​​clouds and stopped on the apron around the observatory at the top of the mountain.

At this time, the sky around the observatory had already turned into an extremely orange-red world.

Stepping out of the cabin and jumping into Yuan Shichen's eyes was the top of a volcano and the beautiful sunset above the sea of ​​clouds.

Durunik and five other members of the extraterrestrial civilization project team, as well as several main officials from the observatory, came up immediately when they saw him.

While looking around the magnificent natural scenery around the mountain, Yuan Shichen said with emotion: "Your working environment is so good!!"

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

"No wonder so many people choose to participate in the Planetary Environment Research Project of Alpha Centauri System." Yuan Shichen shook his head and smiled.

"Welcome to our observatory!" Several officials in charge of the observatory stepped forward one by one to shake hands with the prefecture.

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

After a while of greetings, Yuan Shichen 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 and four space telescopes." Durunik and other project team members introduced to Harashichen.

"Show me the observation data." Yuan Shichen nodded and said.

"We also conducted observation and verification in various ways," Durunik added.

"Has the specific size of the planet been calculated?" Yuan Shichen asked while looking around.

"From the observation data, the volume of the planet is about 125% of the earth, the density is 1.1 times that of the earth, and it is also a rocky planet." The member of the project team who first found the suspected signal of the planet seriously introduced to Harashi Chen.

"Very good." Yuan Shichen continued to ask after thinking for a while, "Where is the operating track?"

"This is a planet surrounding Alpha Centaurus, which we named Alpha Centaurus. Its orbital radius cannot be accurately determined, but we estimate that it is at least 1.2 billion kilometers, and the orbital period may be as long as 15 years."

"A frozen planet!!"

Yuan Shichen said surprisingly: "It is comparable to Saturn in the solar system. However, the mass of Alpha Centaurus Aa is relatively small, and the orbit and orbital period are somewhat unusual. It should be affected by the gravity of Alpha Centaurus B."

"Yes, the team leader, we estimate that the surface temperature of this planet is too complex inside the Alpha Centaurus system, but unfortunately we cannot directly observe it," said Durunik regretfully.

"If we rely on our existing equipment, it is a dream to directly observe the planets inside the Alpha Star system." Yuan Shichen shook his head and continued, "Especially when there are three stars, the brightness of the planets there is less than one billionth of that of the stars!"

"Xianchen, if our observation data does not have much way out, then this frozen planet should be unlikely to be the homeland of the Creator."

Durunik seemed a little dissatisfied with the result.

"This is not necessarily the case, we should consider it in two directions." Yuan Shichen had different opinions on this.

"First, in the complex Alpha Centaurus Alpha Centaurus, the orbits of each planet are definitely not constant, and they will be affected by the gravity of the other two stars at any time. Perhaps 2.1 billion years ago, Alpha Centaurus Alpha Centaurus was still in a habitable zone, which is a habitable earth-like planet. Second, since we have already discovered a planet, it proves that there must be other planets in the Alpha Centaurus Alpha Centaurus, everyone should continue to work hard!!"

(The Alpha Centaurus, that is, Proxima Centaurus, was formed in the same age as the Alpha Centaurus A and B binary, about 4.85 billion years ago, slightly earlier than the 4.6 billion years of the sun. It is currently a red dwarf, and the possibility of a planet is much smaller than that of a and b. Since its size is only slightly larger than the critical mass of a star required to produce hydrogen fusion reactions, the rate of fusion reactions is slow and unstable, so astronomers estimate that its lifespan can reach more than 10 billion years.)

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

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

If rocky planets exist in the habitable zone of the Centauri Alpha system, this means that humans have the hope to create a habitable environment on it.

It will definitely become the destination for human interstellar navigation!
Chapter completed!