Chapter 267 Proxima Planetary System and Tidal Locking

There is no more harassment from the Tal civilization.

Now the Earth civilization has begun to recuperate and entered an era of peace.

With the help of angels, Eastern dragons and mechanical races, the human race, elves, fairies, orcs and demon races have begun to develop various technologies. Without the strong military pressure as before, the technology of Earth civilization has begun to develop in all directions, no longer limited to the military.

In this way, a year passed quickly in the blink of an eye.

And Chen Mu also arrived at his destination.

Proxima.

Chen Mu turned into an angel and looked at the star in front of him with super bionic eyes. The star is billions of kilometers away.

Looking at this star, he had a novel feeling.

As a star, the most common one in the solar system is the sun. When you look at the sun from the earth, the sun has white light, but when you look at the sun from a close distance, the sun is orange-yellow.

The star in front of Chen Mu is not the white color imagined, nor is it yellow like the sun, but another color, red.

Proxima is a red dwarf star.

The mass of a red dwarf is more than 105 Jupiter masses. Their hydrogen nuclear fusion speed is slower than that of yellow dwarfs such as the sun, so although the mass of a red dwarf is small, its life span is longer.

The mass of this kind of star is generally no more than half of the sun, and its volume is relatively small, and its light is relatively dim.

If it is on Earth, without the help of an astronomical telescope, humans cannot observe any red dwarf.

It is said that 70% of the stars in the galaxy where the solar system is located are red dwarfs.

There are a lot of red dwarfs.

The Proxima Centauri in front of us is one of the many red dwarfs in the Milky Way.

Although the size of a red dwarf is not as big as the sun, it is still terrifyingly large compared to Chen Mu.

Compared to Proxima Centauri at this moment, Chen Mu is obviously much smaller.

Chen Mu also noticed through his super bionic eye that this Proxima Centauri is different from the sun in the solar system.

It is not alone.

Because there are two stars near it.

Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B are two yellow dwarf stars. Compared with Proxima Centauri, these two stars have more mass and volume than Proxima Centauri.

The gravity of the two stars pulls each other to form a unique binary star system, orbiting each other.

Proxima Centauri is a long way away from them, but even so, it is still affected by the gravity of the two stars and orbits around the two stars to form a companion star.

The three stars thus form a unique triple star system.

Although Alpha Centauri Alpha and Alpha Centauri Beta are relatively close, this is only from the perspective of stars. From the perspective of humans, the distance between them is very far, so far that each has its own planetary system and its own habitable zone for life.

Of course, Chen Mu's priority now is still on Proxima Centauri in front of him.

Chen Mu can see five planets orbiting Proxima Centauri through his super bionic eyes.

Just like the solar system, Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf, also has its own planetary system.

At the same time, Chen Mu also saw that there was an asteroid belt between the third and fourth planets, and this asteroid belt.

The red dwarf emits a red halo, shining on the asteroid belt, and the asteroid belt reflects red light.

The entire planetary system of Proxima Centauri is stained with a red halo.

It looks very dreamy.

If a human saw this scene, he would probably be very excited and excited.

At this moment, Chen Mu's heart, which seemed to have no emotions, also had a ripple.

"Food."

It took Chen Mu more than four years to finally reach the destination.

For more than three thousand years, humans on Earth have observed Proxima Centauri. With the observation capabilities at that time, it was observed that Proxima Centauri had two planets, Proxima B and Proxima C.

But after getting closer, Chen Mu found that Proxima Centauri not only had those two, it had its own planetary system with five planets.

It doesn't matter, just swallow it first.

Chen Mu thought, the whole planet turned golden, and he pounced on the nearest planet.

Outside Proxima is a gas giant planet, similar in appearance to Neptune, with a small mass, only six times the mass of the Earth.

Swallowed.

Continue to go in.

The fourth one, also a gas giant planet, was swallowed.

Slowly, swallowed in.

In the end, there was only the last planet left in the entire Proxima planetary system.

After this round of swallowing, Chen Mu's body size has increased. At this moment, he is already the size of two Jupiters.

Chen Mu, with a golden glow, stared at the last planet of Proxima in front of him.

This planet is very interesting.

It orbits Proxima, but it does not rotate on its own. Instead, one side faces Proxima, and then orbits Proxima.

"This should be Proxima B."

According to the previous astronomical knowledge of the Earth, there is a planet in the habitable zone of Proxima, a red dwarf star, named Proxima B.

The relationship between Proxima B and Proxima is like the relationship between the Earth and the Moon.

Because the moon is too close to the earth, it does not rotate. It is attracted by the earth's gravity, with one side always facing the earth, and then it revolves around the earth. This is tidal locking.

Proxima B is a planet, which is located in the habitable zone of the star Proxima Centauri, but because Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri is too close, which causes Proxima B to be locked by Proxima Centauri's gravity, and one side will always face Proxima Centauri, which is equivalent to tidal locking.

This Proxima B is very close to the red dwarf, and its entire body is grayish white, somewhat similar to Mercury.

Chen Mu is not in a hurry to devour this planet.

Because Chen Mu remembered one thing, the Earth had done research before, and mentioned that life may appear on this planet.

Chen Mu said: "System, is there life on this planet?"

"Detection is in progress."

"Detection completed."

"There is no life activity on this planet."

It seems that there is no.

However, it is normal. It is too difficult for a tidally locked planet to give birth to life.

The side facing the star has to endure the star's exposure every day, while the side behind it is eternal night.

In this environment, normal life is impossible to be born.

Chen Mu didn't think any more and moved closer.

After the huge body moved closer, it directly opened its swallowing ability.

Proxima B turned golden and slowly sank into Chen Mu's body and was absorbed by Chen Mu.

Chen Mu swallowed a Proxima B in the blink of an eye.

"It's so little." The mass of the Proxima planetary system is too small.

Chen Mu could only get less than the mass of Jupiter by swallowing all the planets in the Proxima planetary system.

Chen Mu looked at the Proxima in front of him.

The mass and size of Proxima are larger than Chen Mu, so it is obviously impossible to swallow Proxima.

It seems that he can only go over there to have a look.

Chen Mu looked in the direction of Nanmen II.