Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. All the World’s a Stage–The Galaxy 1
4. Merely Players–Meet the Hyades 16
5. The Food of the Stars 30
6. First the Infant–The Pre-Main-Sequence Stage 45
7. Creeping like Snail–The Main Sequence 63
8. Leaving the Main Sequence 75
9. The Bubble Reputation–Supergiants 96
10. Sighing like Furnace–The Cepheid Variable 110
11. The Red Giant 128
12. The Oldest Open Clusters 137
13. Open Clusters and the Structure of the Galaxy 146
14. The Globular Clusters 156
15. Metal-Rich Globular Clusters and Red Variable Stars 166
16. Globular Clusters and Short-Period Variables 178
17. Last Scene of All? 198
18. Finale–Pas de Deux 202
19. Star Atlas 233
20. Acknowledgments 254
21. General Index 255
22. Index of Stars 257
23. Index of Clusters and Galaxies 260