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Photo credits

These thumbnails are built from real photographs, scaled and darkened by the same arithmetic as the large view.

The Pleiades: Wikimedia Commons, Plejades (M45).jpg, CC0
The Moon: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio / LRO, public domain
The Orion Nebula: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (heic0601a), CC BY 4.0
The Andromeda Galaxy: Adam Evans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Albireo: 阿爾特斯, Wikimedia Commons (Albireo_01.jpg), CC BY-SA 3.0
The Double Cluster: Giuseppe Donatiello, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
Mars: ESA/MPS, Rosetta OSIRIS team, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The Hercules Cluster: Wikimedia Commons, Messier_13.jpg, CC BY-SA
The Ring Nebula: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (heic1310a), CC BY 4.0
The Dumbbell Nebula: Wikimedia Commons, M27 Dumbbell Nebula, CC BY-SA
The Whirlpool Galaxy: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith, Hubble Heritage (heic0506a), CC BY 4.0