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10 catchy quotes and mesmerising pics by NASA
The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration frequently shares stunning pics from space on Instagram with catchy quotes in the caption.
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Let's take a look at how NASA quoted some of its mesmerising pics in its captions on Instagram.
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"Unique. That’s what you are."
This image features record-breaking brown dwarfs in star clusters, about 1,000 light-years away and only 5 million years old.
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"The trail we blaze."
NASA's Hubble telescope captured this image of a cosmic reef, about 163,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Dorado.
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"Never let anyone dull your sparkle."
This image by NASA features the planet Mercury with young craters in light blue, fluid lava in tan and minerals in dark blue.
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"Life is like a bubble. Sometimes, you just have to roll with it."
This image is of the bubble nebula, about 7,100 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel in 1787.
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"If you got it, haunt it."
Captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this image is of a pulsar wind nebula, a fast spinning dense neutron star that resembles a ghostly hand.
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft features rings of the planet Saturn. Saturn's rings are made from mostly ice and rock particles.
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"I would paint the sky for you."
This image is of the stars in one of the brightest nebulae, the Orion Nebula. It is about 1,300 light-years from Earth in Orion's belt.
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"Catching waves, not feelings."
This is a satellite view of tidal currents pushing seawater into spirals in the Sea of Okhotsk. The smooth tidal currents shown in the image are known as laminar flow.
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"Find me under the lights / Diamonds under my eyes."
Captured by NASA's Hubble telescope, this image is of a cluster of stars in our Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius, about 30,000 light-years from Earth.
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"Call us paparazzi because we can’t stop reporting about new stars."
NASA's Webb telescope captured the formation of new stars in high-resolution near-infrared light. An orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 lies at the center of the image.
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