Cosmic catastrophes: exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe

Setting the stage: star formation and hydrogen burning single stars

Stellar death: the inexorable grip of gravity

Dancing with stars: binary stellar evolution

Accretion disks: flat stars

White dwarfs: quantum dots

Supernovae: stellar catastrophes

Supernova 1987A: lessons and enigmas

Neutron stars: atoms with attitude

Black holes in theory: into the abyss

Black holes in fact: exploring the reality

Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the universe: long, long ago and far, far away

Supernovae and the universe

Wormholes and time machines: tunnels in space and time

Beyond: the frontiers.