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32 stunning photos of our universe

There's a special sense of wonder that comes from gazing at the stars and mulling over space's many mysteries.

For hundreds of years, those mysteries couldn't begin to be solved because scientists could only observe space from Earth. In order to capture an image, the light from space would have to travel through Earth's turbulent atmosphere and images would be blurry and inaccurate.

The answer was to build observatories in space. Insider combed through the archives of two of these observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to find some of the most breathtaking photographs.

From supermassive black holes to interacting galaxies, here are 32 jaw-dropping photos of space.

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