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Index
Cover Introduction | The Story of the Universe in 100 Stars 1. Hikoboshi | The Cowherd and the Heavenly Weaver Girl 2. 2MASS J18082002-5104378 B | Catching Sight of the Big Bang 3. 34 Tauri | The Planet That Was Once a Star 4. Alcyone | Georg von Peuerbach and the Start of a Revolution 5. Freistetter’s Star | Can You Buy a Star’s Name? 6. HR0001 | Mrs. Hoffleit Counts the Stars 7. Vega | Underrated Dust 8. Rasalhague | Confounded Astrologers 9. TXS 0506+056 | Ice Cube Astronomy 10. π1 Gruis | A Simmering Giant 11. B Cassiopeiae | A Dogma Blows Up 12. Acrux | One Star, Too Many Names 13. 51 Pegasi | The Answer to a Thousand-Year-Old Question 14. 61 Cygni | Killer of the Crystal Spheres 15. BPS CS 22948-0093 | A Cosmic Shortage of Lithium 16. 62 Orionis | Caroline Herschel Emerges from Her Brother’s Shadow 17. Antares | Fluff in the Superbubble 18. Hairy Stars | Portents of Death and Messengers from the Past 19. HD 142 | Our Bright Astronomers Frequently Generate Killer Mnemonics 20. Sidera Medicea | Not Stars, But Still Revolutionary 21. HD 10180 | Lots of Numbers, Lots of Planets 22. Teide 1 | A Star Gone Wrong 23. Aldebaran | Rendezvous in the Distant Future 24. Wise 0855-0714 | All Alone in the Universe 25. Wolf 359 | The Battle for Earth 26. SN 1990O | Dark Energy—an Unsolved Puzzle 27. Algol | The Demon Star 28. Polaris | One of Many 29. TYC 278-748-1 | The Asteroids’ Shadow 30. SS Leporis | To the Roche Limit 31. L1448-IRS2E | Star Under Construction 32. Nemesis | The Sun’s Invisible Escort 33. Navi | An Astronaut’s Prank 34. 14 Herculis | Heavy Metal Stars 35. Alpha Capricorni | The Wellspring of Shooting Stars 36. Anwar Al Farkadain | The End of the Night 37. Sirius B | The Future of the Sun 38. Iota Carinae | The Cosmic Eye Needs Glasses 39. Sun | The Lengthy Search for the Astronomical Unit 40. NOMAD1 0856-0015072 | Pluto’s Belated Revenge 41. Z Chamaeleontis | Too Soon for Black Dwarfs 42. HD 162826 | The Sun’s Long-Lost Sibling? 43. 40 Cancri | A Rejuvenating Collision 44. 171 Puppis A | The Birthplace of Gold and Silver 45. Alpha Antliae | The Sky’s Toolbox 46. W75N(B)-VLA2 | A Baby Star Loses Mass 47. HIP 13044 | A Case for Astro-Archaeology 48. KIC 4150611 | We Need More Syzygies! 49. Delta Cephei | Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s Wonderful Stars 50. The Star of Bethlehem | A Messiah’s Status Symbol 51. Arcturus | The Speed of Rainbows 52. Gamma Draconis | And Yet It Moves! 53. Merak | Bears in the Big Dipper 54. GS0416200054 | Creative Roads to Discovery 55. PSR B1919+21 | Smashed and on Its Last Legs 56. Canopus | Blinding Brightness 57. Eta Carinae | A Leak in the Hull 58. Alphecca | A Colorless Jewel in the Celestial Crown 59. Barnard’s Star | A Controversial Fast Bowler 60. Deneb | Cecilia Payne Fathoms the Stars 61. Beta Pictoris | Visions of an Alien World 62. 72 Tauri | The Star That Made Einstein’s Name 63. V1 | The Most Important Star in the Universe 64. Kepler-1 | Bright Sun, Dark World 65. HD 209458 | The Star with an Evaporating Planet 66. Proxima Centauri | The Star Next Door 67. NGS | Killed by Laser 68. M87* | The Invisible Made Visible 69. KIC 11145123 | The Roundest Star in the Universe 70. The Morning Star | Light-Bringer in Disguise 71. OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53 | Starry Spectacles 72. Orion Source I | A Rather Salty Star 73. Lich | A Dead Star’s Phantom Planets 74. S0-102 | The Star Gazing into the Abyss 75. GRB 010119 | Quantum Gravity and Planck Stars 76. Scholz’s Star | A Near Miss in the Stone Age 77. ICARUS | The Light of the Most Distant Star 78. SIRIUS | The Flood-Bringer’s Dawn 79. V1364 CYGNI | In Search of Dark Matter 80. KIC 8462852 | The Rise and Fall of an Alien Civilization 81. Star 23 | The Riddle of the Sky Disk 82. SN 2008ha | The Sky Belongs to Everyone 83. Spica | Climate Change and Celestial Mechanics 84. Felis | Celestial Ex-Cat 85. WASP-12 | Wet Asphalt in Space 86. ULAS J1342+0928 | Shining a Light into the Cosmic Dark Age 87. Sanduleak -69 202 | The Long-Awaited 88. 3C 58 | Star Full of Quarks 89. CoRoT-7 | Home of the Super-Earth 90. CYGNUS X-1 | The Black Hole’s Bright Light 91. The Green Star | It’s Black and White 92. Gliese 710 | A Close Encounter in the Distant Future 93. GRB 080319B | The Biggest Explosions in the Universe 94. GW150914 | Gravity’s Light 95. R136a1 | The Monster in the Tarantula Nebula 96. Trappist-1 | The Perpetual Discovery of the Second Earth 97. P Cygni | A Question of Distance 98. Outcast | Through the Milky Way at Hyperspeed 99. S Monocerotis | The Spiral Galaxy in the Christmas Tree 100. Zeta Ophiuchi | Cosmic Rays and Climate Change Afterword | More Stories About the Universe Acknowledgments Further Reading Image Credits Index Also by Florian Freistetter About the Author Copyright
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