Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for October 2014

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    <a href="http://www.chandra.si.edu/press/14_releases/press_102714.html">NASA/CXC/Stanford/I.Zhuravleva et al</a>
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    October 31, 2014: Perseus in purple
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    <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/43/image/a/">NASA, ESA, M. Montes (IAC), and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)</a>
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    October 30, 2014: Pandora's Cluster
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/sunrise-from-the-international-space-station/#.VFE3bovF-v1">NASA/Reid Wiseman</a>
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    October 29, 2014: Sunrise From the ISS
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/here-s-looking-at-you-spooky-shadow-gives-jupiter-a-giant-eye/#.VFE2h4vF-v1">NASA/ESA/A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)</a>
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    October 28, 2014: Jupiter's Spooky Eye Is Watching You
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    <a href="http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/NGC7293">Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona</a>
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    October 27, 2014: The Helix Nebula
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/wise/pia18848/#.VEmOFIvF-v0">X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech</a>
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    Six images that combine Chandra data with those from other telescopes.

    October 26, 2014: Illusions in the Cosmic Clouds
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/extreme-ultraviolet-image-of-a-significant-solar-flare/#.VEmRn4vF-v0"> NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory</a>
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    October 25, 2014: Big Solar Flare in Extreme UV
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-sees-turquoise-tinted-plumes-in-large-magellanic-cloud/#.VEmQIYvF-v0">ESA/Hubble & NASA: acknowledgement: Josh Barrington</a>
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    Turquoise-tinted plumes in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    October 24, 2014: Turquoise-Tinted Plumes in Large Magellanic Cloud
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    <a href="http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037494_1685">NASA/JPL/University of Arizona</a>
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    October 23, 2014: Melas Chasma
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    <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/45/image/a/">NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (PSI), C.M. Lisse (JHU/APL), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)</a>
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    October 22, 2014: Mars and Comet Siding Spring
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    <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=5103">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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    October 21, 2014: Mini Moons
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    <a href="http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Galaxies/NGC90">Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona</a>
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    October 20, 2014: Countless Galaxies
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    <a href="http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037551_2540">NASA/JPL/University of Arizona</a>
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    October 19, 2014: Perennial Frost on Mars
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/10/Butterfly_death_throes">NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team</a>
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    October 18, 2014: Butterfly Nebula's Death Throes
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