Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes

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Our Sun is aging. Like us, it will someday die, and the light that warms and illuminates our planet will go out. All life on Earth will perish with it-unless we do something to stop it. Is that possible? Martin Beech thinks it is, but we must begin to plan and create the technologies that will save...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beech, Martin (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Astronomers' Universe,
Temas:
Astronomy.
Solar system.
Nuclear fusion.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Space Physics.
Nuclear Fusion.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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