In the year 2236, humanity has advanced in space exploration, but has yet to discover extraterrestrial life. However, a mysterious signal is detected coming from a galaxy billions of light years away. The Global Space Agency constructs a state-of-the-art spaceship, the Hope, to investigate the signal. The Hope is piloted by four astronauts who embark on a perilous journey through space, navigating through the solar system, asteroid belts, and into the unknown. Along the way, they encounter various obstacles and witness the birth and death of stars and galaxies. The signal grows stronger, and the Hope is drawn to the edge of the universe, where the crew discovers a wall of dancing light carrying the signal. With no choice but to pursue, the crew prepares to skip outside their universe in search of the signal's source.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The year is 2236.
2. Space exploration is flourishing.
3. Astronauts are the most respected professionals in the solar system.
4. The Global Space Agency (GSA) registered a repeating signal two years ago.
5. The signal is coming from a galaxy billions of light years away.
6. A spaceship called "Hope" was constructed to explore the signal.
7. The Hope exceeds the speed of light.
8. The Hope is piloted manually by four individuals.
9. The Moon is 239,000 miles away from Earth.
10. The Moon is Earth's only satellite and closest celestial body.
11. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
12. Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system.
13. The asteroid belt is a major obstacle for the Hope.
14. Ceres is the largest near-Earth asteroid, over 600 miles in diameter.
15. Jupiter is the largest planet in our system, with a diameter of about 89,000 miles.
16. Jupiter is a gas giant.
17. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane that has been going on for centuries.
18. Saturn's rings are made of ice and stone and span as wide as the distance from the Moon to Earth.
19. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the solar system.
20. Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons.
21. The Kuiper Belt is a region of icy bodies and other small celestial objects beyond Neptune.
22. The Oort Cloud is a distant, spherical shell of icy bodies surrounding the solar system.
23. The Hope uses a state-of-the-art skip drive to travel through space.
24. Proxima Centauri is the Sun's closest star neighbor.
25. Alpha Centauri A and B are two large stars in the same star system as Proxima Centauri.
26. The Milky Way galaxy is the galaxy that contains our solar system.
27. The Andromeda galaxy is a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way.
28. A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
29. The Hope approaches a galaxy cluster with hundreds of galaxies being born.
30. The galaxy cluster is centered around a supermassive black hole.
31. The Hope reaches the edge of the universe as we know it.
32. The signal the Hope has been chasing is coming from the edge of the universe.