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The lives of stars -- Star light, star bright -- The birthplace of stars -- A star is born -- The H-R diagram -- Main-sequence stars -- Brown dwarfs -- Red giants -- Planetary nebulae -- White dwarfs -- Supergiants and supernovae -- Cepheids -- Neutron stars and pulsars -- Black holes -- Double stars -- Type Ia supernovae -- Star clusters -- Nucleosynthesis -- Extrasolar planets -- Life in space?

Scientists have discovered a tremendous variety of star types, each with a fascinating biography and a strange fate in store. Using the most beautiful photos of space objects available, Harvard-trained astronomer Ken Croswell leads a tour of the stars the young, the aging, and the dead but still active

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