May 1, 2014 3:50 PM

Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for May 2014

Photo: ESA/SMART-1/AMIE; Mosaic: M. Ellouzi/B. Foing
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May 31, 2014: Chain of Moon Craters
Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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May 30, 2014: Martian Gullies

Photo: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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Violent birth announcement from an infant star
May 29, 2014: Circinus Molecular Cloud
Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University/Brown University
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May 28, 2014: A Habitable Martian Volcano?

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Butler (Univ. of Zurich)
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The large cloud looms in the very center of this image of the galactic plane from Spitzer. A new study takes advantage of the shadows cast by the cloud's darkest clumps to measure the cloud's overall structure and mass.
May 27, 2014: The Deepest Shadows Ever Recorded
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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May 26, 2014: Curiosity Rover's Well-Used Wheels

Photos by ESO/G. Beccari
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The colourful star cluster NGC 3590
May 25, 2014: Colorful Star Cluster
Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech
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WISE's large field of view and multi-wavelength infrared sight allowed it to form this complete view of the cluster, containing dozens of bright galaxies and hundreds of smaller ones. Old stars show up at the shorter infrared wavelengths, color coded blue
May 24, 2014: Hidden Black Holes

Photos by NRAO/AUI/NSF
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May 23, 2014: Dark Matter Protects Gas Cloud
Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech
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May 22, 2014: 3-D Crater on Europa

Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech
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This striking star formation region, mapped in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, was recently spotted by one of Spitzer's Twitter followers searching through the GLIMPSE360 panorama of our Milky Way galaxy.
May 21, 2014: Rorschach Nebula
Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
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May 20, 2013: Red Rim of Endeavour Crater

Photos by NASA, ESA Acknowledgement: J. Nichols (University of Leicester)
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Hubble sees a flickering light display on Saturn
May 19, 2014: Flickering Lights on Saturn
Photos by Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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May 18, 2014: Olber's Paradox

Photos by European Space Agency Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Kathy van Pelt
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Starbursts in the wake of a fleeting romance
May 17, 2014: Near-Collision Warps Galaxies
Photos by Bruce Campbell (Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum); Arecibo/NAIC; NRAO/AUI/NSFl; NASA
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May 16, 2014: Radar on the Moon

Photos by ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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May 15, 2014: Rosetta's Comet Waking Up
Photos by Gemini Observatory
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May 14, 2014: Odd Planet Out

Photos by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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May 13, 2014: Dying Star
Photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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May 12, 2014: Pitted Martian Terrain

Photos by X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn and the MYStIX team; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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May 11, 2014: Inside the Flame Nebula
Photos by ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) and the LEGUS Team
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The scale of the Universe
May 10, 2014: Dark Matter in Dwarf Spiral Galaxy

Photos by NASA/NSO/Goddard Space Flight Center
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May 9, 2014: Solar Flare Coordination
Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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May 8, 2014: Saturn Rings and Shadow

Photos by NASA
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May 7, 2014: Giant Eye Nebula
Photos by ESA and the Planck Collaboration
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May 6, 2014: Milky Way's Magnetic Field

Photos by Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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May 5, 2014: Delicate Galaxy
Photos by ESA/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, S. Molinari, Hi-GAL Project
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May 4, 2014: Glowing Jewels in the Galaxy

Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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May 3, 2014: Migrating Dunes on Mars
Photos by Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA
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May 2, 2014: Dark Filament

Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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May 1, 2014: Uranus from Saturn

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