영문목차
1 Fatal collision 3
2 A journey between two worlds 15
3 Rival giants of astrophysics 33
4 Stellar buffoonery 57
5 Into the crucibles of nature 73
6 Eddington's discontents 104
7 American adventure 120
8 An era ends 139
9 How stars shine 153
10 Supernovae in the heavens and on earth 177
11 How the unthinkable became thinkable 201
12 The jaws of darkness 217
13 Shuddering before the beautiful 233
14 Into a black hole 248
App. A The ongoing tale of Sirius B 265
App. B Updating the supernova story 268