Chapter 1482 The Great Discovery of Astronomy - Looking at Astronomy Again
"Your Majesty." Cao Zheng walked to Yun's side, waited for a while and said: "I was also very surprised when I observed the Tianhe with clairvoyance for the first time. I never thought that the Tianhe is not a river in the sky, but is formed by the twinkling of countless stars. Because these stars are too far away from the earth, or maybe they are too small, it is difficult to distinguish the twinkling light of these stars with just two eyes, so I always thought it was the Milky Way."
"What? The Tianhe is not a river in the sky, but formed by countless stars twinkling?" Wen Qi and others, who were standing aside boredly, were suddenly surprised when they heard this. Wen Qi clamored to see it with his own eyes. Fortunately, there was another clairvoyant in Sicheng Hall. After adjusting it, he was about to show it to Wen Qi. But Wen Qi had just taken a step toward the clairvoyant when he was suddenly stopped by Min'er. "Sister, what are you doing? What?" Wen Qi asked a little impatiently and a little strangely. If she wanted to take a look first, she could just go to the clairvoyant and have a look. What should she do to stop her?
"You think I'm like you," Min'er said first, pointing at Wen Dao: "You haven't seen Xiaoliu eager to see the real Tianhe? As an elder brother, he has to let his younger brother."
"Sixth brother?" Wen Qi turned back to look at Wen. Seeing that Wen was indeed looking at the clairvoyant with a longing expression, he smiled and said: "Sixth brother, you go and have a look first."
"Third brother, the elders and younger ones are in order..." Wen said hesitantly, but was interrupted by Min'er: "Go quickly, we are brothers and sisters, why are we so humble?"
"Yes, eldest sister." Wen was a little afraid of this eldest sister and did not dare to speak anymore. He agreed and held the clairvoyant lens tube and looked up.
"This, the Milky Way is really made up of countless twinkling stars!" Wen looked at the sky through his clairvoyance with one eye, and his other eye flashed with surprise.
"Really? Let me see!" Min'er shouted. She waited for a while, pulled Wen away from the clairvoyant, leaned over to look at the sky, and soon said in surprise: "It's really true! There are so many stars in the sky! At least thousands! No, at least tens of thousands of stars!"
Others suddenly became curious and wanted to see the true face of Tianhe. "Go, go, go!" Min'er said again: "Let me take a few more looks, and then I will give it to you later. And you actually sent Wen Luo there. Behind you? Don’t you know you should take care of your little sister?” Min’er pulled Wen Luo to her side and said, “Wen Luo will come and see next.”
Min'er's words were very righteous, and everyone was a little afraid of this eldest sister, so they didn't dare to object; and Min'er was indeed fair and did not eat more, take more, and she could see for a shorter time than Wen, so she quickly let go of her clairvoyance and handed it to Wen. Luo let her take a look. Then she excitedly introduced what she saw to her younger brothers who had never seen it before, and said: "The Tianhe River is actually like this. I have never thought about it."
"Is this so?" Others were amazed after hearing Min'er's description. "There are countless stars twinkling in the sky, it must be very beautiful."
"The real Tianhe is indeed very beautiful, very beautiful." After seeing the Tianhe just now, Wen lowered his head and thought about it. At this time, he said: "Countless stars are twinkling in the sky. Such beauty is simply indescribable." Then, he was still thinking about it.
"Wouldn't that mean that the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is false?" Wen Di suddenly said, "The Magpie Bridge is also false?"
"Why, you still think that's true?" Min'er smiled and said, "Even Wen Luo doesn't think this legend is true. You are not as good as your sister as a man."
Wen Di suddenly blushed and said: "Before seeing that the Tianhe is made up of many twinkling stars today, who could know that the Tianhe is not the real Tianhe? Who can guarantee that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the Magpie Bridge are both fake?"
"Yes, yes, you are right." Min'er smiled again and said, "This time you know that Tianhe and Magpie Bridge are both fake. Remember to go back and tell Wen'er."
Wen Di's face turned even redder, and he muttered softly, and no one else could hear what he said. Wen Yuan walked over and comforted him with a few words, which made him feel better.
"Sister." Wen Luo handed the clairvoyance to Wen Qi, walked to Min'er and called.
"I think it's a very beautiful scenery." Min'er smiled.
"It is indeed very beautiful. However, since the Milky Way is fake, because these stars are either too far away from the earth or too small to be regarded as the Milky Way, are the twinkling stars now also fake? It is caused by something more subtle.
For example, it is composed of many continuous lanterns?" Wen Luo said.
"Well, who knows." Min'er paused and said, "It's hard to say. We can only hope that the officials in Gezhi Prison can develop clairvoyance that can see farther."
"Your Highness the Princess, I and other Gezhijian officials must study astronomy seriously, develop clairvoyance that can see farther, and find out whether the stars are composed of more subtle things." Cao Zheng heard this and said beside them.
"Commander Cao thinks so, my father will definitely be happy." Min'er smiled. Wen Luo rolled his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
At this time, Yun had also stopped observing the Tianhe. He smiled at Sichengtang and said, "It's great that Aiqing has observed what the Tianhe is like, which helps the great celestial literature get rid of fallacies."
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty." Sichengtang forced a smile and bowed in reply.
Yun continued to say a few words about this, and then ordered: "Okay, Tianhe has seen it, and transferred the clairvoyance to the other side. I want to see the next one."
Sichengtang's face showed a more depressed look, but he did not disobey his order. He walked to the clairvoyant and adjusted it seriously. After a while, he said to Yun again: "Your Majesty, you can see." After hearing this, Yun
He lowered his head and looked at the sky through clairvoyance.
What caught Yun's eyes this time was completely different from the last time. During the previous observation, Yun's eyes were instantly covered by a continuous stream of twinkling stars, but this time only a crescent moon emerged. This crescent moon reflected silvery white light.
, hanging alone in the sky, giving people a feeling of loneliness, and at the same time giving people who see it a very strange feeling: There is actually a crescent-shaped thing in the sky?
But if you look carefully through your clairvoyance, you will find that there seems to be something on the edge of the silver-white light; if you open your eyes wider and look at it for a while without blinking, you will find that the size of the crescent moon seems to be changing, and there are things in the darkness at the edge of the light.
The things inside seemed to start to reflect light, and they seemed to be exactly the same as those that reflected light before.
If you look into the crescent moon again, you will find that the bright crescent moon does not seem to be so smooth. After a few more careful looks, you will find that there seem to be bulges, depressions, and even cracks in the crescent moon.
At this time, the sky was no longer pitch black, the sun seemed to be about to rise, and the originally dazzling crescent moon became much dimmer. At this time, Yun slightly reduced the magnification of the clairvoyance, so that the crescent moon no longer occupied most of the sight, and with the help of the slightly
In the bright sky, I discovered that the crescent moon was not a crescent moon, but a part of a complete spherical shape. However, only this part reflected silvery white light, so it would appear like a crescent moon on a dark night.
"This is the moon?" Yun said in a questioning tone. Unfortunately, he was neither a professional worker nor an astronomy enthusiast in his previous life. He had never observed the moon at all, although theoretically a lonely planet near the earth should be The moon, but he wasn't sure.
"Your Majesty, this is the moon." Cao Zheng replied.
"It's incredible, it's incredible." Yun said with an expression of surprise. But this time, he was just pretending.
"Your Majesty, when I observed the moon for the first time, I couldn't believe it. I never thought that the moon looked like this. The moon is actually a star, and there are mountains, basins, and canyons on the surface. , there are mountain peaks.”
"The moon is also a spherical star? There are mountains, basins, canyons, and peaks on the surface?" Min'er asked in surprise: "How is this possible? Then why is it crescent-shaped most of the year? ?”
"This is because it is blocked. The moon in the sky and the earth under our feet are constantly rotating. Your Highness, the moon does not shine. Its light is the sunlight that shines on its surface and reflects to the earth, which makes it appear silvery white. Light. Since the light of the moon is obtained by reflecting sunlight, when the earth is between the sun and the moon, some sunlight is blocked, and the moon appears like a crescent." For these previous generations, literary scholars have studied and drawn conclusions. Of course, Cao Zheng answered the question easily.
"And by calculating the movement of the moon, not only can we prove that the earth under our feet is indeed spherical, but we can also prove that the earth does revolve around the sun, and the moon revolves around the earth. Every twenty-nine or thirty days the moon orbits The earth rotates once, which is also the origin of the months; every year, the earth rotates around the sun, so there are different years." Cao Zheng added.
"So that's it!" Min'er shouted in a slightly high-pitched tone, but she wasn't very surprised, much less than when she saw the Tianhe just now. She had been taught that the earth was a sphere since she was a child, so she wasn't particularly surprised. .
And she is more concerned about another thing. "Since the earth is spherical and the moon is also spherical, are there people living on the moon? Are there Chang'e, Jade Rabbit, etc. living on it?"
"Well, at least based on the current observation results, the moon is completely bare. There is nothing but mountains and valleys, and there are no people." Cao Zheng replied.
"That's it." Min'er's mood was a little low. Although she was mentally prepared for the myths such as Chang'e flying to the moon to be false, she was still not happy to hear their answer like this.
"Your Highness, do you want to see the moon with your own eyes? It will be dawn soon, and the moon will be invisible." Cao Zheng said again.
