Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for May 2014

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    Photo: ESA/SMART-1/AMIE; Mosaic: M. Ellouzi/B. Foing
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    A-peppering-of-craters-at-the-Moon-s-south-pole

    May 31, 2014: Chain of Moon Craters
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    Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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    ESP-027989-1425

    May 30, 2014: Martian Gullies
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    Photo: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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    Violent birth announcement from an infant star

    May 29, 2014: Circinus Molecular Cloud
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    Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University/Brown University
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    Mars1-1-spd

    May 28, 2014: A Habitable Martian Volcano?
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    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
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    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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    curiosity-rover-wheel-spd

    May 26, 2014: Curiosity Rover's Well-Used Wheels
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    Photos by ESO/G. Beccari
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    The colourful star cluster NGC 3590

    May 25, 2014: Colorful Star Cluster
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    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
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    Photos by NRAO/AUI/NSF
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    smithcloud-nrao

    May 23, 2014: Dark Matter Protects Gas Cloud
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    europacrater

    May 22, 2014: 3-D Crater on Europa
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    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
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
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    redmars

    May 20, 2013: Red Rim of Endeavour Crater
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    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
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    Photos by Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    olbersparadox

    May 18, 2014: Olber's Paradox
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    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
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    Photos by Bruce Campbell (Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum); Arecibo/NAIC; NRAO/AUI/NSFl; NASA
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    radarmoon

    May 16, 2014: Radar on the Moon
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    Photos by ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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    Comet-develops-a-coma

    May 15, 2014: Rosetta's Comet Waking Up
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    Photos by Gemini Observatory
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    GUPscb-GMOSiz-WIRCamJ-noinset

    May 14, 2014: Odd Planet Out
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    Photos by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    abell36s

    May 13, 2014: Dying Star
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    Photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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    May 12, 2014: Pitted Martian Terrain
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    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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    flamenebula

    May 11, 2014: Inside the Flame Nebula
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    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
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    Photos by NASA/NSO/Goddard Space Flight Center
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    flarecoordination

    May 9, 2014: Solar Flare Coordination
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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    saturnshadow

    May 8, 2014: Saturn Rings and Shadow
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    Photos by NASA
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    eyenebula

    May 7, 2014: Giant Eye Nebula
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    Photos by ESA and the Planck Collaboration
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    Milky-Way-s-magnetic-fingerprint

    May 6, 2014: Milky Way's Magnetic Field
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    Photos by Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    delicategalaxy

    May 5, 2014: Delicate Galaxy
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    Photos by ESA/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, S. Molinari, Hi-GAL Project
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    Glowing-jewels-in-the-Galactic-Plane

    May 4, 2014: Glowing Jewels in the Galaxy
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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    PIA18244

    May 3, 2014: Migrating Dunes on Mars
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    Photos by Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA
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    Dark-liftoff

    May 2, 2014: Dark Filament
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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    PIA17178

    May 1, 2014: Uranus from Saturn
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