How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos
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Like a pulsar, the book is at times dense, but it also dazzles. It recasts modern astronomy as the search for transient, explosive events, and the messages they contain if only we can decode them. New York Times Book Review The characters we meet along the wayfrom binary stars to black holesare painted with rich and lively prose, with James detailing the range of clues astronomers use to study these strange objects, including neutrinos, gamma-ray bursts and even tree rings. Physics World A fascinating guide to the Universe's most violent events, but also an intriguing look under the bonnet of modern science. BBC Sky at Night Magazine
C. Renee James (SPRING, TX) is a professor of physics and astronomy at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Science Unshackled: How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life and Seven Wonders of the Universe That You Probably Took for Granted.
Prologue. Flashes of Insight Chapter 1. Catching Cosmic Fireflies Chapter 2. Out of the Question Chapter 3. Putting the "Super" in Supernova Chapter 4. Star-Shattering Energy Chapter 5. The Search for Smoking Guns Chapter 6. Detecting Cosmic Heartbeats Chapter 7. Stellar Arrhythmia Chapter 8. (Almost) No Star Is an Island Chapter 9. The Making of a Superstar Chapter 10. Cloudy with a Chance of Neutrinos Chapter 11. Not "The End" Chapter 12. Collision Course Chapter 13. Fallen Stars Chapter 14. Don't Blink Chapter 15. Point Blank Chapter 16. Cats, Rats, and Fantastic Beasts, and How to Tell Them Apart Chapter 17. Cosmic Tremors Chapter 18. The Return of the Furbies Chapter 19. LIGO, We Have a Problem Chapter 20. Impeccable Timing Chapter 21. All Together Now Chapter 22. Multiple Eyewitness Accounts Chapter 23. FurbiesA New Hope Chapter 24. The First Bumps in the Universe Chapter 25. The Last Hurrah Epilogue. Ephemera Acknowledgments Bibliography Index