Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes

• Main Author: Beech, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: Astronomers’ Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Space sciences.; Nuclear fusion.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Nuclear Fusion.

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...

Table of Contents:

• A Universal Problem
• It’s a Matter of Time
• The Sun, Inside and Out
• The Price of Doing Nothing
• Rejuvenating the Sun
• Stars Transformed
• Between Now and Then.