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  title info:
    title: Under a Crimson Sun
    sub title: Prospects for Life in a Red Dwarf System
  name:
    name part: Stevenson, David S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 324 p. 60 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star some 20.3 light years from Earth. Red dwarfs are among the most numerous stars in the galaxy, and they sport diverse planetary systems. At magnitude 10, Gliese 581 is visible to amateur observers but does not stand out. So what makes this star so important? It is that professional observers have confirmed that it has at least four planets orbiting it, and in 2009, Planet d was described in the letters of The Astrophysical Journal as “the first confirmed exoplanet that could support Earth-like life.” Under a Crimson Sun looks at the nature of red dwarf systems such as Gliese as potential homes for life. Realistically, what are prospects for life on these distant worlds? Could life evolve and survive there? How do these planetary surfaces and geology evolve? How would life on a red dwarf planet differ from life on Earth? And what are the implications for finding further habitable worlds in our galaxy? Stevenson provides readers with insight into the habitability of planets and how this changes as time progresses and the central star evolves. Explore with him in this engaging, fascinating book the possibilities for finding life, from bacteria to more complex and even intelligent organisms, on red dwarf system planets.
  table of contents: The Evolution of Red Dwarfs -- Gliese 581, a Planetary System 20 Light-years from Earth -- 'Super-Earths' -- The Development of Life -- Prospects for Sustained Evolution -- Surface Conditions on Super Earths -- Gliese 581 - the Next 400 Billion Years -- Comparison with the Evolution of Earth -- Red Dwarfs - the Final Bastions of Life?.
  note: by David S. Stevenson.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  classification: QH327-328
  classification: 576.839
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astronomers' Universe
  identifier: 9781461481331
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8133-1
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    record creation date: 130809
    record change date: 20151030011137.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-8133-1