Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 264 The Devil's Eye
"Countdown, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition!..."

In the control building of the Lingshan Rocket Launch Base, dozens of technicians in white clothes were all staring at the display screen in front of them.Others stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, looking expectantly at the huge rocket two or three kilometers away, only vaguely visible in outline.

The "Mercury" space telescope is now curled up in the rocket cabin in a folded posture.

It is the most advanced space telescope recently developed by the human world.It has infrared and visible light resolution and sensitivity far exceeding any previous space telescope, and can theoretically detect celestial objects that are only 500/[-] billion brighter than the previous generation of most advanced space telescopes.

Many scientific researchers place high hopes on it.People expect that the Mercury space telescope will be able to observe the early evolution of the universe as clearly as possible from the closest perspective like Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, and find the first planet formed in the universe after the Big Bang. The light of a group of stars and galaxies is used to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, and even to study the origin of planetary systems and life.

This is the most important step ever taken by the human world in the history of space exploration.

In the lens of media reporters, the commander-in-chief of the launch mission gave the launch command forcefully.The next moment, a camera placed near the rocket captured the sudden burst of flames at the bottom of the rocket.

Astonishing heat radiated everywhere, and the water used for cooling at the bottom of the rocket was transpired in a large amount in an instant. Surrounded by clouds and mist, the heavy rocket slowly rose, making a loud noise like a tractor, which spread throughout the space of several kilometers.

The rocket speed is getting faster and faster.In just a moment, it passed through the clouds, flew directly into the sky and disappeared.

There was brief applause in the control room.

Countless viewers watching the live broadcast of the launch in front of the TV heard the news of the next step from the host.

"The rocket has successfully entered the predetermined orbit. After that, it will circle the earth for more than ten times. During this process, it will slowly accelerate, and at the right time, it will break away from the gravity of the earth and step into deep space. After about a week, It will reach the sun, the second Lagrangian point of the earth, and complete the attitude adjustment there for subsequent observation tasks.

The telescope control team said that after it reaches the predetermined location, it is expected to take about half a year to debug and verify it.If all goes well, in about a year, the first batch of photos taken by the Mercury space telescope will be processed and announced to the world.Audience friends, let us look forward to it together. "

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Two years later.

In the deep space laboratory building of Yunshan University, Professor Zhou Tianyang, who is over fifty years old, slowly walked to the office belonging to his team.

"Morning Professor Zhou."

"Morning, Professor."

Facing the joyful and high-spirited greetings from his researchers, Zhou Tianyang couldn't help smiling.

"Hi everyone. Well, how are the preparations going?"

"Don't worry, professor, I'm sure nothing will go wrong!"

Zhou Tianyang glared at him, and reprimanded: "Don't be careless! Go check the process again!"

Although it was a reprimand on the surface, the tone was full of concern and love.

This is one of the students he cares most about.At a young age, under his own guidance, he has led three large-scale deep space observation projects, published three papers with high impact factors, and gained a certain reputation in the academic circle.

If there is no accident, when the deep space observation project this time finally produces a paper, I intend to let him sign the second author.What this means to a young man in his thirties is self-evident.

At that time, he can really go out independently, set up his own team, and fight for funds to carry out further, more in-depth and cutting-edge research.

The student named Wang Yue agreed, and led the younger brothers and sisters to start a careful inspection again.Zhou Tianyang was worried and joined the inspection.

Zhou Tianyang couldn't help but be careless.It has been two years since the launch of the Mercury space telescope. After preliminary debugging and verification, it officially started deep space exploration one and a half years ago.The observation task submitted by his team finally started yesterday after a year and a half of queuing.

The telescope will point the lens at a slight angle in the direction of Sirius, observe a corner of the sphere for a full three days, and make a full three-day exposure.

Because the light of distant galaxies is too weak.Even with the most advanced telescope in the human world to observe, it is impossible to see clearly.If you want to collect more data, you can only increase the observation time.

In the history of deep space observation, there have been many attempts of this kind.The most famous of these are the three composite images taken by the Hubble Telescope, namely Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and Hubble Extreme Deep Field.

In Hubble's extreme deep field, the Hubble Space Telescope aimed at a small area in the constellation Arama, with a cumulative exposure time of up to 200 million seconds. The luminosity of the faintest galaxy in the image is only a hundredth of the lower limit of the speed of light visible to the naked eye. one billionth.

However, just such a corner of the universe contains tens of thousands of huge river systems.Each of them is in the same order of magnitude as the Milky Way where the human world is located.

The vastness of the universe is presented in front of people in such an extreme way.

At this moment, the research conducted by Zhou Tianyang's team has similarities with the Hubble Deep Field.The difference is that the goal of Zhou Tianyang's team is not to have multiple river systems in the universe, but only one.

This galaxy is numbered CSK-9602 in the deep space star catalog, probably located in the direction of Sirius, about 1.6 million light-years away from the solar system.It has a diameter of about 1000 light-years, and a total of about [-] billion stars make it up.

It is a ring galaxy.According to analysis, it is very likely that hundreds of millions of years ago, a smaller galaxy collided with it, and the gravitational forces between them fought, throwing a large number of stars to the edge of the galaxy, forming a ring around the galaxy Core running.

A ring, plus a core to make it look like an eye.It's like there is a huge eye staring at everything in the universe.Therefore, in addition to the official deep space star catalog number, it has another name, the magic eye galaxy.

Zhou Tianyang believes that the study of the Magic Eye galaxy is of great significance for increasing human understanding of the evolution of galaxies.However, limited by the limitations of previous observation tools, the human world does not know much about the Magic Eye galaxy except for a few blurred photos.

Because of this, Zhou Tianyang did not hesitate to wait in line for more than a year, and finally waited for the observation time of the Mercury space telescope, planning to use these three days to observe it well.

Soon, all the data collected during these three days - expected to be as high as several hundred terabytes - will soon come to his laboratory.Our own side must process and analyze this batch of data as quickly as possible, carry out follow-up research, make final conclusions, and publish papers.

Because as far as Zhou Tianyang knows, in the scientific community, at least four deep space observation teams have carried out research in a similar direction with the same purpose as his team.Once others take the lead and publish the research results first, then the hard work of the two years of my team, if not in vain, at least the value will be greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Yunshan University, where my laboratory is located, also participated in the research and development and launch mission of the Mercury Space Telescope at the beginning, and has a certain right to speak in the entire project, so that only two years after the launch, it is the turn of its own mission to observe.

After carefully verifying the data path, model construction, supercomputing power scheduling and other links, Professor Zhou Tianyang was relieved after confirming that everything was correct.

Time slipped away slowly in the anticipation of Zhou Tianyang's team members.At this moment, it is finally time to receive the data.

The data has been transmitted from the Mercury space telescope to the ground control center through the relay satellite.The data interface has been opened and the download process has started.

At this moment, an average of one gigabyte of data is downloaded through dedicated broadband every second.

It is estimated that it will take about a week to download all the data.

Fortunately, the amount of data is not too large.If there is more data, then it is necessary to use the ultimate killer move of data transmission - find a large truck, and directly pull back the hard disk that records these data from the ground control center.

After waiting anxiously for another week, the data was finally downloaded.

On this day, the entire team, from Professor Zhou Tianyang to the trainee researcher, was in high spirits.According to the plan that had been formulated long ago, Zhou Tianyang gave an order, and everyone rushed to the computer like tigers out of the cage, and started data analysis and sorting, as well as research work.

When actually starting to process these data, people are completely immersed in the vastness and magnificence of the universe.Many details have been discovered through this observation, and every new discovery will cause people to exclaim.

"There are a large number of star factories in the Magic Eye galaxy. It is estimated that at least hundreds of thousands of stars are forming. This is completely different from what we expected before."

"The metal abundance also deviates from the predicted value. Perhaps, the smaller galaxy that merged with the Magic Eye galaxy has more old stars in it?"

New details and new discoveries stimulate people's nerves all the time.At this moment, people have a vague premonition that many new discoveries of extremely high weight will come out in this research.

After completing the preliminary sorting, about a month later, the first research result of this observation - a full high-definition picture of the Magic Eye galaxy was finally synthesized.

Usually, the magnificent pictures of the deep space of the universe that people see, such as the Hubble Deep Field, such as the Pillars of Creation, and the Eagle Nebula, are not real shots.Those colorful colors are artificially added after post-processing.

Different temperatures, densities, elemental compositions, object shapes, etc. will be represented by different brightness and colors.After adding these details, a picture of deep space can be generated.But it may be completely different from what the naked eye sees.

At this moment, the high-resolution image of the Magic Eye Galaxy synthesized by Zhou Tianyang's team is different from the previous practice.This time, Professor Zhou Tianyang strives to be "real". Although there are some artificially synthesized parts, he believes that if one day, someone really looks at the Magic Eye Galaxy from a suitable angle and distance, what he sees must be the same as himself. The resulting picture is pretty much the same.

At this moment, all the researchers gathered in the conference room, looking at the curtain hanging in front of them with anticipation.Professor Zhou Tianyang walked in with a smile on his face amidst the high expectations.

After the brief speech, all the windows of the conference room were covered and all the lights were turned off.In the darkness, Professor Zhou Tianyang pressed the button, and the laser projector started to work.

So the next moment, an "eye" with some kind of magical power appeared on the screen.

The radiance is shining, the nebula is flowing, billions of stars...

People's breathing stops unconsciously.Needle drop could be heard in the huge meeting room.

All people's attention is attracted by this picture.It seems that people's souls have crossed a distance of more than 1 million light-years at this moment, and plunged into this magnificent and gorgeous galaxy that cannot be described in words.

Many people even shed tears unknowingly at this moment.

It took a long time before someone gradually came to their senses, but they could only repeat one word over and over again.

"It's so beautiful, so beautiful..."

Other than this vocabulary, people don't know what language to use to describe it.

It was not until Professor Zhou Tianyang turned on the light, and the picture of the magic eye galaxy on the curtain was no longer so gorgeous due to the interference of the light, people reluctantly looked away, but they still couldn't help aiming at it every few seconds. glance.

It seems that it really has some kind of magic, enough to make people addicted and breathtaking.

Professor Zhou Tianyang also looked back reluctantly, and said: "This is only a preliminary picture. There are still a lot of details that have not been filled in. After our analysis and research work goes further, I believe this picture will be more magnificent and more gorgeous."

In this regard, everyone is full of confidence.

After the celebration meeting, Professor Zhou Tianyang returned home with a slightly tired body and still excited spirit.

His wife and children are now asleep.After Zhou Tianyang washed his hands lightly, he lay down on the bed and planned to fall asleep.

But for some reason, he, who always sleeps well, has insomnia today.He always involuntarily recalled the picture of the magic eye galaxy, and felt like a kitten scratching in his heart, always wanting to take another look.

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