We Were Thrown Out

"Jupiter is gone? How is that possible!"

Yue Yuan's first reaction upon receiving the news at the base was that it was impossible. Although the sun's explosion was powerful, Jupiter's mass was significant, and its distance was far enough. How could it be pushed away?

"I apologize; my expression was inaccurate. It's not that Jupiter is gone, but that Callisto's tidal locking has been broken." Gan De, who had come to inform Yue Yuan, gave an apologetic expression and explained, "Further judgment requires more data."

"Is it being done?" Yue Yuan stood up somewhat anxiously.

"It's being done. Larger telescopes are being transported up. Xiao Zhang from the Astronomy Department followed up as soon as he discovered the situation. Calculating the time, the first batch of observation parameters should be available soon. We'll know the specifics immediately." Gan De touched his newly cut sparse white hair and said calmly.

Yue Yuan was very satisfied with this efficiency. He nodded and said, "Let's go to the data center."

With that, he took the lead out of the office, but he stopped at the door, turned back, and instructed Zhu Pete in the office, "Pete, the work of returning to Earth cannot stop. You follow up on this matter, coordinate with various departments, and strive to build various facilities on the ground as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

After giving the instructions, Yue Yuan strode towards the base's temporary data center.

Gan De followed closely behind.

Before long, the two arrived at the data center located on the bottom floor. As soon as they entered, they saw a large group of staff members busily processing data, moving back and forth in this big data center, passing documents, and discussing their views on the data. It seemed chaotic, but it was well-organized.

Yue Yuan waved at the crowd and nodded to indicate that they should continue with their work and not stand on ceremony. Then, he and Gan De passed through the crowd and went straight to the astronomical data receiving station.

Arriving at the data receiving station, Gan De directly said to the woman at the console, "Xiao Yu, has the data been transmitted?"

"Dr. Gan, you're here!" Hearing Gan De's voice, the woman called Xiao Yu first turned around to greet him, but found that Yue Yuan was also there. So, she straightened her face and said, "Base Commander, you're here too!"

"Yes," Yue Yuan nodded to the woman, then pointed to the data receiving station and said, "Let's get down to business."

Xiao Yu was about thirty years old, with shoulder-length short hair and well-maintained skin, making her look like a girl in her early twenties. She turned back, operating the data station while saying, "The first batch of data has been transmitted back, Doctor, please take a look."

After a series of operations, data was switched out and displayed on the big screen.

Gan De stared intently at the screen, but the more he looked, the tighter his brow furrowed.

Yue Yuan saw his expression and felt that things were not good. Sure enough, the next moment he saw Gan De look up, close his eyes, take a deep breath, and sigh as he slowly opened his eyes, "The situation is far worse than predicted!"

Before Yue Yuan could speak, Gan De continued, "During the initial observation, we only thought that Jupiter's tidal locking to Callisto had been broken, and the side where our base is located had just turned to face the dark universe. But from the data of this further observation, it's far more than that..."

Far more than that? Yue Yuan was shocked and hurriedly said, "Tell me the specifics."

It wasn't that Yue Yuan didn't have eyes to see for himself, but what was displayed on the screen now was a string of initial data and some highly professional curves. This kind of data that hadn't been processed a second or third time was really incomprehensible to non-professionals.

Gan De also realized this, so he instructed Xiao Yu, "Xiao Yu, import the data into the celestial body simulation system, and adjust the time to 30x speed."

"Okay."

Xiao Yu nimbly opened the celestial body simulation software and then skillfully imported the data into the system.

Yue Yuan saw that the display on the big screen was switched to a dynamic 3D simulation video of the Solar System. As Xiao Yu acted, the Solar System simulation system, which was originally running normally, began to change.

First, the sun's brightness suddenly increased, and a light exceeding 20 magnitudes occupied the entire screen. After the strong light burst out, a cloud-like object of red, white, and yellow rapidly expanded and diffused from the original position of the sun as the frames refreshed.

As the sun's explosion spread, Mercury, Venus, and Earth were directly engulfed in the fiery ocean and then completely disappeared from the screen. The orbit where Mars was located became a cloud of dust, and then its name was also erased from the simulation system. The asteroid belt was directly blown clean.

The super solar wind formed by the solar explosion turned from white to blue, sweeping outward in bursts. It was like a demon, expanding in the starry sky, devouring its original children one by one.

After the powerful explosion swept through, only the names of a few giant gas planets hung lonely in the fiery cloud.

A death replay! Seeing this, Yue Yuan felt very uncomfortable. This was not appreciating the wonders of the universe, but accepting mental torture.

He endured his sadness and shifted his gaze outward, finding the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.

Jupiter was still there, but its brightness seemed to have increased a lot.

According to the data, Jupiter's surface temperature directly soared from -164 degrees Celsius, breaking through 10,000 degrees Celsius within two days, and continued to rise until it reached a maximum value of 17,900 degrees Celsius on the eighteenth day, and then hovered around this temperature.

Jupiter was ignited.

At the same time, its mass was slowly decreasing, which meant that Jupiter's atmosphere was being blown away by the super solar wind. Relatively, in the following time, Jupiter's surface temperature also slowly dropped.

More than two months later, its surface temperature fell back below 10,000 degrees Celsius and slowly decreased. After four and a half years of cooling, its surface temperature would fall back below zero degrees Celsius again as the space temperature decreased.

And its mass was constantly decreasing, but as the temperature decreased, the mass it was blown away would slowly be stopped, and finally stabilized within a certain value, about 30% of its original mass.

This was because Jupiter was a gas giant system, and the gas mass was severely lost.

Yue Yuan carefully looked at the local details. At this moment, he found that Jupiter's orbit was represented by a solid line circle and a dashed arc.

Nodding inwardly, he understood what this meant. The solid line circle represented Jupiter's original orbit, while the dashed line was Jupiter's new orbit after the change. Not only was the orbit indicated by solid and dashed lines, but the axis of rotation was also marked with solid and dashed lines.

This indicated that not only had Jupiter's orbit changed, but its axis of rotation had also tilted at a certain angle.

Not only Jupiter, but Saturn was no exception.

Yue Yuan searched on the screen but couldn't find Callisto in Jupiter's original orbit, so he said, "Where is Callisto?"

"Here." Gan De pointed to a dark area on the screen and asked Xiao Yu to highlight it, making it a conspicuous bright spot.

As a string of constantly changing numbers appeared, Yue Yuan saw that small bright spot.

"This…" Yue Yuan frowned deeply.