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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Since the early 1600s, when Galileo turned his tiny telescope to the heavens, astronomers have been building ever bigger, even better telescopes with which to examine the stars. Earth-based telescopes, however, have a severe problem. Our atmosphere terribly degrades stellar images, giving us a frustratingly fuzzy view in even the best of our terrestrial instruments. Above almost all Earth's atmosphere flies the Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting in a near-vacuum where the stars appear as steady points. This extraordinary telescope can therefore make full use of its optical power to allow us to see fine detail and to probe into the once-private hearts of stars.

Over its years of service, Hubble has compiled an impressive list of images that yield a vastly clearer view of the way in which stars-and perhaps even planetary systems-are born, live out their lives, and die.

Robert Naeye is an associate editor of Astronomy magazine in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he writes about stars, extrasolar planets, cosmology, black holes, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Naeye has written more than a dozen feature articles for Astronomy on a wide variety of astronomical subjects, and he edits many of the science features that appear in the magazine.

(Extracted from the foreword and the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Acknowledgments.

-Contents.

-Great Balls of Fire.

-The Star Next Door.

-A Star Is Born.

-Stellar Shrouds.

-Cataclysm.

-Recycling Machines.

-Glossary.

-Index.