Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. 1. A Collision That Shook the Cosmos 5
5. 2. Discovering Neutron Stars ... and Little Green Men? 35
6. 3. When Stars Go Boom 60
7. 4. Zombies and Starquakes 90
8. 5. Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star 131
9. 6. How Neutron Stars Keep Spoiling Dark Matter Theories 163
10. 7. When Pulsars Have Planets 185
11. 8. Giant Scientific Tools of the Universe 198
12. 9. Fast Radio Bursts, an Unfinished Chapter 231
13. Epilogue 255
14. Notes 259
15. Acknowledgments 279
16. Index 283