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Chandra celebrates the International Year of Light

26 January 2015 Astronomy Now

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Light, and to recognise the start of the event, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a set of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.