Life Around Dwarf Stars
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Life Around Dwarf Stars
I’ve read thousands of pages worth of all the EU material I’ve been able to find, and I still cannot wrap my brain around the notion of habitable planets orbiting a dwarf star, which is a very exciting proposition. Maybe some of you can fill in the blanks for me: If life is best supported in a planet orbiting with the CHROMOSPHERE of a brown dwarf, how can the planet stay within this atmosphere? The sun's chromosphere is a pretty narrow band; is the chromosphere of a dwarf star unusually wide? With our own sun, beyond the chromosphere is the blasting hot corona. I assume we’re supposing that a dwarf star has a very cool corona? How do the atmospheres of brown dwarfs differ from regular stars to allow (apparently) a very large chromosphere and (perhaps?) no hot corona? And where does all this water and oxygen come from that “rains down” into the atmosphere of a planet? I’m not being critical, I really want to understand this.
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Re: Life Around Dwarf Stars
The real version of that one is now available both as a paperback and in Kindle format.frankebe wrote:I’ve read thousands of pages worth of all the EU material I’ve been able to find, and I still cannot wrap my brain around the notion of habitable planets orbiting a dwarf star....
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Collision- ... +collision
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-in-Collisi ... +collision
The paperback is a bit pricey but this book is heavily illustrated and the illustrations pretty much have to be in color. There is no cheap or simple way to produce color paperbacks. One of my math profs once stated that there is no problem in mathematics, physics, or engineering which was so complicated, that you couldn't draw some sort of a relatively simple picture which would make it easier to deal with.
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