Table of Contents

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. Furbies—A New Hope
Chapter 24. The First Bumps in the Universe
Chapter 25. The Last Hurrah
Epilogue. Ephemera
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

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.