- Foreword.
- Acknowledgments.
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- PART ONE: Preview of the Cosmos.
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- 1. Pointing Our Thoughts.
- 2. The High Energy Universe.
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- PART TWO: The Star Splitters.
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- 3. The Road to HEAO.
- 4. On the Road Again.
- 5. Mission Planning.
- 6. The Star Splitters.
- 7. New Perspectives in
Astronomy.
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- PART THREE: The High Energy Universe
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- 8. Creative Violence.
- 9. Explosion of a Star and a
Myth.
- 10. Cosmic Ray Surprise.
- 11. Superbubbles.
- 12. Stellar Coronas.
- 13. Collapsed Stars.
- 14. Pulsars.
- 15. Tides in the Affairs of
Neutron Stars.
- 16. Degenerate Dwarfs.
- 17. Black Holes.
- 18. The Realm of the Galaxies.
- 19. X-Ray Images of the
Galaxies.
- 20. The Maw of the Abyss.
- 21. Stripped Spirals and Cosmic
Cannibals.
- 22. The Mystery of the Missing
Mass.
- 23. Cosmic Fire.
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- Additional Reading.
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- HEAO Management Teams.
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- Additional Photo Credit.
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- About the Author.
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