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Best of The Beautiful Universe
In its first decade of exploration, Chandra has expanded our view of the universe with
its unrivaled ability to create high-resolution X-ray images of cosmic phenomena: X-ray sources
produced by matter circling only a few miles from a black hole, whirling, super-dense neutron
stars expelling fingers and rings of extremely high energy particles, a look at the insides
of an exploded star, and clouds of hot gas in galaxy clusters millions of light years
across. None of this could be observed without an X-ray telescope.