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This book presents in a simple style the success story of modern astrophysics -- how the application of known physics to models of stars can, together with the observational data, help us understand what stars are made of, how they live and how they die. The account is non-technical but scientifically accurate. It is interspersed with anecdotes and analogies to make the subject matter readable and understandable even to a lay reader with some basic scientific background.

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• Preface(p. v)
• Preface to the Second Edition(p. vii)
• Prologue(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 On Stars and Humans(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 Light: The Storehouse of Information(p. 7)
• Chapter 3 The Vital Statistics of Stars(p. 23)
• Chapter 4 How Far are the Stars?(p. 39)
• Chapter 5 A Star is Born(p. 59)
• Chapter 6 The Secret of Stellar Energy(p. 77)
• Chapter 7 The Origin of Chemical Elements(p. 93)
• Chapter 8 When Stars Explode(p. 111)
• Chapter 9 Very Dense Stars(p. 131)
• Chapter 10 Black Holes(p. 147)
• Chapter 11 Binary and Variable Stars(p. 167)
• Chapter 12 The Quest Continues(p. 179)
• Epilogue(p. 191)
• Appendix: Powers of Ten, Logarithms and the Magnitude Scale(p. 193)
• Credits for Images(p. 197)
• Index(p. 199)