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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. How to explore the X-ray universe; 3.Exploding stars and their remnants; 4. Active stellar coronae; 5.Supergiants and superbubbles; 6. Normal galaxies; 7. Massive X-raybinary stars; 8. Low-mass X-ray binary stars; 9. X-ray binaries inglobular clusters; 10. Cataclysmic variable stars; 11. Are there blackholes in our Galaxy?; 12. SS433 - the jet-propelled star; 13. Activegalactic nuclei; 14. Clusters of galaxies; 15. X-rays from planets; 16.The diffuse X-ray background; 17. Major observatories of the 1990s;Bibliography and further reading; Index.