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Chandra Images - Inspiration

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1. Planetary Nebula
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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2. NGC 281
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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3. Perseus A
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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4. Tarantula Nebula
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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5. Cassiopeia A
Surely the stars are images of love.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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6. Galactic Center
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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7. Catseye Nebula
No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
(Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIT/J.Kastner et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI)

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8. Centaurus A
Our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it.
(Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.; Submillimeter: MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al.; Optical: ESO/WFI)

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9. M82
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.
(Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/JHU/D.Strickland; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA/The Hubble Heritage Team; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of AZ/C. Engelbracht)

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10. NGC 602
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
(Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL- Caltech)

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11. M101
the axis of the universe—love
(Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR & UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI)