Is the Foundation of the Astronomy Edifice Shaken?

The Great Hall of the People in China.

A group of the top physicists and astronomers in China took their seats one after another.

The Speaker sat at the front of the hall with a solemn expression.

Deep worry could be seen in the depths of his eyes.

"Ahem!"

The Speaker reached out to adjust the microphone and cleared his throat.

When he saw that everyone in the audience was looking at him, Speaker Li pondered for a moment and then began to speak.

"Dear professors and academicians, I called you all here in a hurry today because I just learned some news."

As he spoke, Speaker Li reached out and turned on the projector in the Great Hall of the People in China.

A paper appeared on the large projection screen.

Seeing this paper, all the professors and academicians present frowned.

A soft murmur of discussion followed.

"Is this... the paper from *Nature* a few days ago?"

"Yes, I'm quite impressed with this paper."

"What does Speaker Li want to illustrate by showing this paper at this time?"

"Not sure... Maybe the sun has really entered the aging stage?"

"Nonsense! How could that be possible?!"

"..."

Looking at the noisy scene in the audience, Speaker Li's expression became even more solemn. "Quiet!"

"Based on the data in the paper and the observational data of the National Astronomical Observatories of China in the past month."

"Professor Lü Yongchang has calculated and reached a conclusion."

"The sun is aging at an unprecedented rate. According to the model prediction, the sun will become a red giant within ten years and will experience a helium flash within fifteen years!"

Speaker Li's voice paused slightly, and he added again, "This set of calculation data has been verified by Ye Nangeng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China."

"..."

After the words fell, the huge Great Hall of the People in China fell into silence.

The pupils of all the participants instantly shrank to the size of a pinhead!

More than ten seconds later, an uproar broke out!

"What?!"

"How could this be possible!"

"Professor Lü Yongchang? Isn't he researching controlled nuclear fusion? Why is he suddenly researching astronomy?!"

"I heard he's still a sophomore undergraduate. This... this is no joke!"

"But... since Old Ye has recognized Professor Lü's calculation results, doesn't that mean..."

"Don't guess randomly. Let's wait for the Speaker to explain!"

After a few minutes, the sound of discussion gradually died down.

Speaker Li swept his eyes across the people in the audience and spoke again, "To be honest, I don't really believe this conclusion either."

"I called everyone here today to conduct a verification."

As he spoke, the picture on the projection screen changed.

Looking at the neatly arranged deduction formulas on it, every professor frowned deeply.

"These are the latest solar models established by Professor Lü Yongchang. Take a look and see if you can find any loopholes."

"Besides... according to this model's speculation, around 22:50 tonight, an extremely intense aurora phenomenon will occur globally."

At the moment of hearing this sentence, everyone turned their heads and looked out of the window.

The sky outside was pitch - black, with no sign of an aurora.

The Speaker raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

21:56

There was less than an hour left until the predicted time.

"Academician Yang Jianchuan, what do you think of this statement?"

Speaker Li asked softly with a calm expression.

Academician Yang Jianchuan, who was named, frowned tightly and murmured to himself, "It's impossible..."

"Although there was an extremely intense aurora event in 1958, that was when solar activities were violently erupting."

"According to the recent observational data, solar activities are far from reaching this standard!"

Speaker Li nodded slightly. "So, the possibility of a global aurora occurring at present is extremely small, right?"

Seeing Academician Yang Jianchuan nod, Speaker Li took a deep breath. "That means that once a global aurora really occurs in an hour..."

Speaker Li didn't continue speaking at this point.

Everyone present was not stupid and naturally understood what the Speaker meant.

After a moment of silence, Speaker Li spoke again with a solemn expression, "Dear professors, there's still some time. For now, let's first verify Professor Lü's model!"

...

At 22:35 in the evening.

All the professors and academicians were frowning and looking at the page of the deduction process on the projection screen.

"Old Yang, have you found any problems?"

An academician asked Yang Jianchuan beside him softly, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

Yang Jianchuan slowly shook his head. "I... I can't see any problems."

"Even, after looking at this model, I think there's something wrong with the stellar models we established before."

"What?!" The academician was greatly surprised and said repeatedly, "This... Old Yang, this is no joke!"

As a leading figure in the field of astronomy in China, Old Yang's judgments in astronomy were rarely wrong.

Precisely because of this, Old Yang's opinion would directly influence the judgments of most people!

Old Yang's face was solemn, and he let out a deep sigh. "I also hope it's not the case."

"The history of humanity is too short, and our technological level is too low."

"The only star we can truly access is the sun. So... it's normal for the model to be wrong."

Seeing the unacceptable expressions on the faces of several professors around him, Old Yang softened his tone a bit.

"Of course, maybe our model is correct. It's just that the sun has some problems we don't know about, which led to this strange phenomenon..."

Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of those professors eased a bit.

After all, once the basic model of stars is wrong, it means that the foundation of human astronomy has been completely shaken!

This was something that every researcher couldn't accept!

"Ahem..."

The Speaker's voice of clearing his throat came from the stage. "Dear all, have you found any loopholes?"

"Or is there anyone who has objections to this deduction result?"

Time passed slowly bit by bit.

The huge Great Hall of the People in China was silent.

Hundreds of professors and academicians lowered their heads one after another, not daring to meet the Speaker's eyes on the stage.

Several senior academicians in astronomy and physics also sighed and shook their heads helplessly.

Seeing this scene, a trace of disappointment flashed in Speaker Li's eyes.

He slowly closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh.

"In that case, then..."

Before he could finish speaking, an exclamation came from the audience!

"Aurora!"

"The aurora really happened!"

Speaker Li suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to look out of the window!

A gorgeous red light appeared over Beijing!

The red light gradually spread across the entire sky.

Under the reflection of the aurora, the originally bright moon was also tinged with a layer of blood, as if heralding the future of humanity!