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Prologue. Extreme Genealogy 11
Notes for the Journey 17
Part 1 Born of Stars
Chapter 1 The Stardust Revolution 21
Meeting Lucy Ziurys 21
The Third Great Revolution 25
The Origins of the Stardust Revolution 28
New Ways of Thinking 30
New Ways of Seeing 32
Beyond the Impossible 33
Chapter 2 A Star's Fingerprint 37
Looking at the Sun 37
The Great Seer 40
Out of Mystery 45
Bunsen's Burnings 47
Mystery of the Fraunhofer Lines 52
Order in the Heavens 56
A Stranger in the Stars 59
Chapter 3 The Origin of the Elements 67
Of Stars and Atoms 67
The Alchemist's Dream 71
A Recipe for Sunshine 76
Big-Bang Atoms 82
Let There be Hoyle 89
The Astronomer's Periodic Table 96
Nobel Conclusions 102
Part 2 The Invisible Universe
Chapter 4 The Atoms of Life 109
Darwin's Gap 109
On the Origin of Life 112
The Spontaneous-Generation Debate 114
An Elemental View of Life 119
Molecular Evolution 121
The Earth in Glass 124
Liftoff for Exobiology 129
Chapter 5 Dust to Diamonds 135
The Original Dark Matter 135
A New Land between the Stars 140
Seeing with Stardust Eyes 144
The Cold and Dirty Cosmos 146
The Dusty Missing Link 149
Chapter 6 The Cosmos Goes Green 159
Tuning in to Molecules 159
Radio Whispers from the Universe 162
Cosmic Water Man 167
The Cosmic Sea 176
Joining Heaven and Earth 180
Red Giants and White Dwarfs 183
Part 3 The Living Cosmos
Chapter 7 Catching Stardust 195
The Space-Rock Education of Scott Sandford 195
The Birth of the Earth 200
The Men Who First Held Stardust 207
Stardust Memories 214
Sagan's Dream 221
DNA from Space 224
From Eternity to Here 231
Tracing Our Cosmic Carbon Ancestry 235
Chapter 8 Other Worlds 241
New Frontiers 241
A New Vision 245
Dr. Seuss's Universe 256
Alien Earth 266
Chapter 9 Darwin and the Cosmos 277
The Biological Big Bang 277
What Is "Life"? 284
Life as a Cosmic Continuum 292
Bunsen and Kirchhoff's Gift 297
An Ancient View with Stardust Eyes 303
Acknowledgments 309
A Note on Sources 311
Index 353
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