Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for March 2014

  • Mar. 31 2014 Four Moons
    Photos by <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA17157.jpg">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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    PIA17157

    Mar. 31, 2014: Four Moons
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    Photos by <a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/potw1413a.jpg">NASA, ESA, and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) Acknowledgement: Brian Campbell</a>
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    A spiral home to exploding stars

    Mar. 30, 2014: Perfect Spiral Example
  • Image may contain Universe Space Astronomy Nebula Outer Space Nature Outdoors Art Painting Night and Milky Way
    Photos by <a href="http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1624-ssc2014-02-NASA-s-Spitzer-Telescope-Brings-360-Degree-View-of-Galaxy-to-Our-Fingertips">NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE Team</a>
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    milkywaypan

    Mar. 29, 2014: Milky Way Panorama
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    Photos by ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
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    The field around yellow hypergiant star HR 5171

    Mar. 28, 2014: Yellow Hypergiant
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    Photos by NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)
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    14-090-hubble-comet-0

    Mar. 27, 2014: Comet Siding Spring
  • Image may contain Universe Space Astronomy Nebula Outer Space Flame Bonfire and Fire
    Photos by <a href="http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-000972.jpg">NASA, Hui Yang University of Illinois ODNursery of New Stars</a>
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    Mar. 26, 2014: Firestorm of Star Formation
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    Photos by NASA/SDO
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    emergingflare

    Mar. 9, 2014: Flare Bursts From Sun
  • Image may contain Universe Space Astronomy Outer Space Nebula Nature and Outdoors
    Photos by NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA)
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    Hubble and Chandra composite of ESO 137-001

    Mar. 8, 2014: Galaxy Spilling its Entrails
  • Image may contain Nature Outdoors Astronomy Universe Space Outer Space Night Moon Lunar Eclipse and Eclipse
    Photos by NASA
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    tritonneptune

    Mar. 1, 2014: Crescent Neptune and Triton
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