Chapter 248 - Chapter 248: Universe’s Rose
Chapter 248: Universe’s Rose
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After seeing the nebula photo taken by the camera, Jiang An’s eyes widened and she exclaimed, “It’s so beautiful!”
The phone rang, and the screen of the caller ID covered the photo. Jiang An put it on speaker and opened the photo Zou Bai had sent her again.
Zou Bai’s deep voice came from the other end of the phone. “I just took a picture with my camera. Does it look good?”
Jiang An nodded vigorously. She suddenly remembered that the other party could not see her actions while the two of them were talking on the phone. She hurriedly replied, “It’s beautiful! It looks like a rose, and it actually has a color. It’s a faint red color! How magical!”
Zou Bai heard Jiang An’s excited voice and chuckled. “It’s good as long as you think it looks good. Today is our first day together. I should have given you a real bouquet of roses, but I forgot that I didn’t prepare it. I can only use this bouquet of roses from the universe to express my sincerity.”
When Jiang An heard that Zou Bai had specially taken a photo for her to see, she pursed her lips and restrained her smile. Then, she coughed twice to hide her emotions. “Aren’t you home? How did you take it? I’ve heard that you have to go to the mountains to take it.”
Jiang An had not grown up in Jingdu City and did not know the terrain here. Zou Bai explained, “The north is considered the plains. The area of the Zou family’s old residence is already the highest terrain in Jingdu City. 1 wonder if you noticed when you came last time that there are many ancient buildings nearby?”
Jiang An had only been there once. She recalled the scene she saw at that time. “That’s true. The houses over there are not tall. They still maintain the appearance of ancient buildings.”
Zou Bai continued, “Our family’s old residence was a western-style building a hundred years ago. Later on, it was expanded and heightened. It’s considered the highest within a radius of more than ten miles, so I can observe many nebulae at home.”
What Zou Bai didn’t say was that the Zou Family’s old residence had been elevated after the new government had established and introduced a policy of not allowing buildings to be elevated and policies to preserve the ancient architecture.
Jiang An knew about this policy. She only thought that the Zou family had completed the reformation before the new policy was issued, so she did not think too much about it.
Jiang An looked at the rose nebula in the photo and said, “When I was in school in the past, 1 wrote about the Big Dipper in my book. 1 only know this and a few constellations. 1 heard the teacher mention them in class in the past. Looking at those stars requires one to imagine it themselves. Listening about it alone makes me feel quite bored.”
“That’s why I never thought that such a magical phenomenon could be seen in the universe. How did this nebula form?”
Seeing that Jiang An was interested, Zou Bai continued, “The nebula is actually a large-scale cloud-shaped structure formed by gas and dust. The rose nebula you’re looking at now is actually a huge molecular cloud 5,000 light-years away. Do you see that there’s a cluster of stars in the photo that’s slightly brighter?”
Jiang An enlarged the photo and looked at it carefully. “Yes, it’s in the middle of the rose nebula.”
Zou Bai explained, “They are the stars that were just born in this molecular cloud, forming the ‘flower stamen’. The petals are formed by a large nebula. It’s too late today. The film was only exposed for 10 minutes, so the color 1 took was relatively faint.”
“If it’s exposed for two hours, you’ll be able to see even more gorgeous red. The next time you come to my house, I’ll let you see it with your own eyes.”
When Jiang An heard this, she could tell that Zou Bai liked astronomy very much. Hence, she asked curiously, “Do you usually spend a lot of time on this?”
Zou Bai sat back in his rocking chair. “1 only come to take a look when I’m free or frustrated. The universe is vast and magical. In fact, it’s very romantic. Many light spots have already embarked on their journey before there were humans on Earth. Their light rays passed through the boundless universe and arrived in front of us after a long time.”
“When we look up at the starry sky, we are looking up at the past. However, there are things that might have exploded and perished before we even see it. Therefore, sometimes, when I see their existence, I feel that there are many things that we don’t have to care too much about. We are really the most inconspicuous existence in the universe.”
Jiang An lay on the bed and looked through the window frame. She could only see a faint star beside the moon. It was unlike the starry sky that could often be seen on a night in Xiyun..