Ye Han only occasionally looked up at the stars, but many of the observatory's equipment stared at the universe day and night. The dazzling flash in the starry sky immediately caused a strong reaction from the observation equipment. The staff on duty at the observatory was immediately alerted by the alarm and discovered
The flash came from Jupiter, and the watchman was startled. He quickly adjusted the observation equipment and notified his superiors and other astronomical observation agencies immediately.
The news immediately spread to major observatories across the country, and many devices were aimed at Jupiter at the same time.
Not only the domestic astronomical community, but also major foreign observatories have also discovered abnormalities in Jupiter. Even observatories on the other side of the earth during daytime have obtained real-time images of Jupiter through the Internet.
The Hubble Telescope and survey optical module located in outer space also adjusted their attitude immediately and pointed the lens at Jupiter.
In 1994, Comet Maker-Levy 9 passed near Jupiter on its way back. It was only 110,000 kilometers away from the center of Jupiter. For Jupiter with a radius of 70,000 kilometers, this distance was too close. Jupiter did not hesitate to knock the comet away.
The more than twenty fragments were torn apart like a train, continuously hitting Jupiter for one hundred and thirty hours, releasing an energy equivalent to detonating two billion atomic bombs, or the explosion of forty trillion tons of TNT!
It was the first time that humans observed a celestial impact event related to a planet in the solar system. Jupiter erupted again with a flash of light. Many astronomers immediately thought of the comet impact event. The global astronomical community entered a state of mobilization almost at the same time, and countless astronomers burst out collectively.
However, when everyone's attention was focused on the vicinity of Jupiter, many astronomers discovered to their horror that it was not a comet approaching Jupiter again, but Europa!
Jupiter does not have satellite zero, but a few years ago, Jupiter's strong gravity successfully captured a rogue planet with a diameter of nearly 4,000 kilometers. This rogue planet accurately entered Jupiter's orbit and became a new satellite of Jupiter.
The size of this rogue planet exceeds that of Io and Europa, and is second only to Ganymede and Callisto in the Io family. Therefore, when naming this new moon, there were two different voices.
One voice believes that the satellite should be named Europa in numerical order.
Another voice believes that the satellite should be given due treatment and named after zero.
In the end, the latter voice prevailed and narrowly won by three votes, so this wandering planet of unknown origin became Europa.
Research on Io has been ongoing in recent years, with less than a dozen papers published. The astronomical community knows the orbit of Io very well - the orbit of Io has been stable for several years, so how could it suddenly approach Jupiter?
Could it be that Europa was hit by a large celestial body? Could it be that the flash of light not long ago was caused by a celestial body hitting Europa?
No matter what the reason is, it is an indisputable fact that Io is approaching the main body of Jupiter, and according to the current direction of movement of Io, it will not be long before this huge satellite with a diameter larger than the moon will enter Luo
If the limit is reached, the boundary time satellite will be completely torn apart by Jupiter's powerful gravity, and countless fragments will hit Jupiter. The consequences for the Jupiter system and Jupiter itself are difficult to predict, and may even affect the entire solar system!
Everyone's breath froze as astronomers around the world tried their best to calculate the results of the impact with supercomputers.
The orbital changes of Io were extremely obvious. In the early morning of the next morning, Io's gravity was able to disturb the dust in Jupiter's rings. Io successfully captured part of the dust on the outside of Jupiter's rings and adsorbed this part of the dust to its surface.
The situation is grim and the impact is a foregone conclusion. According to the calculation results of the existing orbit data, there are still four days until the impact!
When the news came out, all countries were in an uproar. Even the people's eyes temporarily turned away from the insect plague and turned to the red giant planet in the distant void.
The impact has not yet occurred, and various news predicting the outcome of the impact have flooded the major media pages. Many experts and famous speakers have come on stage. Some are optimistic and optimistic, believing that the impact will not affect the earth; others are negative and pessimistic, believing that the impact will affect the earth.
It will lead to major changes in the solar system environment and may even extinguish life on earth.
Time passed slowly in the chaotic noise, and Europa, which was getting closer and closer to Jupiter, made everyone's hearts tighten in their throats. The news of every TV station repeatedly broadcast the scene of the two stars approaching.
Governments around the world are paying close attention to the impact, but in a rare move they remain silent.
In a few days, Europa will enter the Roche limit, and a collision that will suffocate the world is about to happen!
At this time, the ice cap on the surface of Io suddenly peeled off in a large area, and the huge fragments seemed to be equipped with rocket engines, one after another breaking away from Io and flying in the direction of Jupiter.
The number of fragments was beyond imagination. In just a few hours, the surface of Europa, which is nearly 4,000 kilometers in diameter, actually peeled off an entire layer, reducing its diameter by more than 300 kilometers. The fragments flying towards Jupiter formed a line.
A long line of debris that is hundreds of thousands of kilometers long!
Europa, which has given up a huge amount of mass, seems to have successfully lost weight. Europa, which was bound to enter the Roche limit, actually moved outward in its orbit and passed the edge of the Roche limit, successfully escaping from danger.
All astronomers who witnessed this scene exclaimed in unison: This is not scientific!
Yes, this is unscientific, but the observation equipment does not lie, everything is a real reality.
The astronomy community is crazy, the physics community is crazy, they have proved in various ways that under the existing physical system, such a mutation is absolutely impossible!
The media was in an uproar, the people were dumbfounded, and the government continued to remain silent.
It's not that the government is unaware of the impact, but the main task of each government is how to deal with the insect disaster. For an impact that is several astronomical units away, there is no need or time to care.
After all, even authoritative experts in the astronomical community cannot explain the specific consequences of the impact. It is too early to be concerned now, and it is impossible to arrange intensive evacuation preparations because of various speculations in the astronomical community.
Just when the earth was worried about Jupiter, the first piece of debris from Jupiter fell into Jupiter, instantly bursting out with a strong flash, releasing an energy equivalent to 300 million "Little Boy" atomic bombs, and the power of the explosion spread to
The area is as large as three and three Earths, and it has left obvious black scars on the surface of Jupiter.
Since the impact occurred on the side of Jupiter facing the Earth, observation equipment at various observatories faithfully recorded this process, followed by the second and third times... until Jupiter was riddled with holes by rain-like debris.
