"A pile of sun's... ashes?" Hao Ren was a little surprised, "It's an extinguished star? What else?"
"There is nothing else, no planets, no asteroid belts, and no artificial celestial bodies. The joint thinking program of the drone swarm compared the starry sky in the memory of the angry spirit, and it found a place where it can observe a similar starry sky.
, the star map coincidence rate reaches 99.99%, which can basically confirm that it is the place where the angry spirit looked up at the starry sky - but there is only vast space in that place, and the nearest entity is an extinguished star. Now.
The only good news is that the star is still a little far away from the location we previously judged, about two astronomical units away, so the Nangong couple should not have been thrown into the sun, but into the original location of the sun.
A certain planet has landed, but those planets have disappeared.”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lily lay on the back of her seat: "Let's go over and take a look."
Hao Ren nodded and ordered the spacecraft to disconnect the direct data connection with the outpost. The Giant Turtle Yantai retracted its contact beam and disappeared into space into a streak of silver light, while the small outpost
I readjusted the angle of the crystal sheet and quickly returned to working condition.
After a short voyage, the spacecraft arrived at its destination. The observation platform on the upper part of the Giant Turtle Platform slowly poked out from under the armored belt. After the light-shielding layer was lowered, the vast space appeared before everyone's eyes, and it was dark and vast.
The data terminal uses a beam of light to indicate a certain direction in space. Where the beam points, you can see a small ball of dim red light the size of an egg: "That is ashes, a sun that has been extinguished for a long time.
It failed to turn into a black hole. Now there is only a slightly hot core still emitting residual heat. It can be said that there is not much left of the entire star. The remnants of this star are floating in the entire space around us... thin
The gas, the fragments of the big explosion, etc. are very, very thin and can be ignored.”
Hao Ren nodded. He could see an abnormal gray-brown color in the background of the universe, which was the ashes left after the star exploded. Since these thin air masses spread to such a distance, the current location of the spacecraft should be
It was once swallowed up by the exploding star corona. If there was any planet here, it was probably burned to slag by the scorching nuclear flames.
But even if it is burned to slag, at least some "slag" should be left behind.
"Have you checked the possible orbits?" Hao Ren looked at the embers of the distant star, "Even if that star burns all its satellites, it should at least leave some residue."
The terminal made a beeping sound: "Checked, nothing."
"Expand the search range." Hao Ren nodded, "When a star explodes, it may blow away the celestial bodies around it."
"Can't you think of this?" the data terminal swayed. "This machine wants to remind you: According to calculations, the star in front of you exploded more than 10,000 years ago. Even if it blew away its own satellite, it should have happened at that time.
, and the starry sky in the memory of the angry spirit was a hundred years ago, and this place was calm a hundred years ago - so if we can't find anything here now, then there was nothing here a hundred years ago.
There will be."
Yzaks suddenly said from the side: "Unless there was a planet here a hundred years ago, and then it ran away within this hundred years."
Elizabeth imitated her father's usual momentum and nodded with her arms crossed: "What my father said makes sense."
Vivian waved her hand to stop the little girl from causing trouble: "Do you know what your father said? It makes sense."
Elizabeth puffed up her chest: "Anyway, my dad has a sense of sustainability! This is the law of nature!"
Just when Hao Ren was about to say something more, a halo of light suddenly appeared out of thin air in the space near the spacecraft. A small, rectangular device emitting silver light jumped out of the halo and silently approached the giant.
Guiyan Platform. Hao Ren recognized that this was exactly the kind of detector he had released - of course it was definitely not the original one. It should be a "descendant" of an unknown generation of detectors and was currently in charge of it.
Star map drawing work in an area. This smart drone sensed the position of the master controller and flew directly to the observation platform of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. The back half of its casing opened to both sides, and a small metal device
It floated out from its "belly" and passed through the shield of the observation platform and landed in front of everyone.
Lily immediately caught the gadget out of curiosity and found that it was an incomplete part. Its manufacturing process was obviously not that of Xiling equipment.
Hao Ren was immediately surprised: "Where did it pick this up?!"
The data terminal went up to communicate with the detector: "It's several light years away from here. It was discovered in space. At that time, this piece of debris was flying in space at three percent of the speed of light."
Hao Ren thought of something and immediately ordered: "Follow in that direction!"
The surface of the detection drone emits a burst of blue light. It disappears in front of everyone in an instant, and the data terminal turns on the holographic projection, which displays the radar image continuously sent back by the detector - this image is flying rapidly starting from the Giant Turtle Yantai.
The ground extended in a certain direction. After a moment, the data terminal suddenly emitted a loud whistle, and a bright red dot appeared on the image: "The probe has discovered a planet! But it is being pushed by a lot of thrusters.
, at least eight light years away from here..."
Suddenly everyone fell silent, and all eyes were focused on Yzaks. The latter scratched his bald head and chuckled: "You really have long legs to run away..."
Elizabeth continued to hug her arms and look proud: "So my dad's sustainability makes sense."
The Giant Turtle Yantai immediately followed the navigation signal sent by the detector and quickly caught up with the planet that was running wildly in the vast space. The sight in front of them stunned everyone.
A dim, gray-white planet is moving alone in space. Its surface is dotted with neat and huge ravine lines, which are traces of the deep artificial transformation of the entire planet. In those lines
At the intersection, there are a large number of thrusters arranged symmetrically along the earth's axis. The size of those thrusters is like a mountain, and it is incredible to see it from outer space. Some of them are roaring, erupting from huge nozzles.
Brilliant flames lasting hundreds of thousands of miles, these lights push the planet forward in space, and maintain a slow acceleration process.
This planet embodies a "rugged technological power" everywhere. The propulsion method it uses is obviously a primitive working medium engine, which is different from the "coordinate drive method" used by many space civilizations. However, just right
Such a simple and crude way of propulsion gives the entire planet a staggering sense of power.
The Giant Turtle Yantai was flying synchronously over this dim planet. Hao Ren looked down from the observation platform at the gray-white earth under his feet: "The detection drone has not discovered this planet before?"
"Early drones were only surveying and mapping, basically detecting stars. As for planets and small celestial bodies wandering in space, they were covered by larger gravity sources or light sources," the data terminal explained. "In addition, we
The planet in front of us is right at the junction of the two detection drone cruising areas, and there is a high chance that it will be ignored. After all... it does not emit light, does not have a large mass, and is low temperature."
"Go" was lying next to the observation platform and meowing in surprise, his tail dangling gently in the air: "Is that the place the big cat is looking for?"
"Is it here?" Vivian also turned around and asked.
The data terminal is measuring the trajectory of this wandering star and inferring its position a hundred years ago based on its current route and acceleration. This requires complex calculations and can only produce an approximation under ideal conditions.
——The stars in the universe are a constantly changing reference system, and all celestial bodies are in motion, so when calculating, a lot of things have to be inferred at the same time. But fortunately, the time span that the data terminal needs to consider is only a mere hundred years.
The relative positions of the stars do not change much during the year.
"We first assume that the planet will maintain the current thrust and accelerate after it leaves the star system, and then assume that it has not changed its course within a hundred years, nor has it been captured by other massive celestial bodies. Finally, we comprehensively consider all the nearby objects.
The perturbation caused by the gravitational source..." The data terminal muttered while calculating. Hao Ren's head was as big as a bucket when he heard it: "You just speak human language."
"Oh, this should be the star we are looking for," the data terminal clicked on Hao Ren's forehead. "A hundred years ago, it should have been located at the coordinate point we found before... The deviation was dozens of times.
It may be astronomical units, but on the scale of space, this deviation is almost equivalent to a perfect match."
Lily poked Nangong Wuyue's lower back: "Your parents should be down there. Probably."
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