100 Billion Suns:
The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars
Rudolf Kippenhahn
Translated by Jean Steinberg

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface to the First Paperback Edition
	Introduction	3
1	The Long Life of Stars	8
2	The Astrophysicist's Most Important Diagram	20
3	Stars As Nuclear Power Plants	39
4	Stars and Stellar Models	56
5	The Life Story of the Sun	73
6	The Life Story of Massive Stars	92
7	Highly Evolved Stars	110
8	Pulsars Do Not Pulsate	127
9	When Stars Steal Mass from Other Stars	151
10	X-ray Stars	170
11	The End of Stars	193
12	How Stars Are Born	206
13	Planets and Their Inhabitants	230
	Appendix A: The Velocities of Stars	247
	Appendix B: How the Universe Is Measured	251
	Appendix C: Weighing the Stars	256
	Afterword to the Princeton Science Library Edition	261
	Index	265

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