Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for September 2014

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    <a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16884">NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI </a>
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    September 30, 2014: Awesome View of the Small Magellanic Cloud
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    <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18280">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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    September 29, 2014: Saturn's Cloud Patterns
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    <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6616">NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</a>
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    September 28, 2014: Curiosity Drills First Hole on Mount Sharp
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    <a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1421/">NASA/ESA</a>
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    September 27, 2014: Galaxy of Deception
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/09/Comet_on_24_September_NavCam">ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM</a>
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    September 26, 2014: Beautiful New Comet Close-Up
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    <a href="http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/Imagegallery/mom-images.aspx">ISRO</a>
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    September 25, 2014: Indian Spacecraft's First Image of Mars
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    <a href="http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/2014/09/24/maven-spacecraft-returns-first-mars-observations/"> Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics /University of Colorado and NASA</a>
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    September 24, 2014: MAVEN's First Images of Mars
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/pia18283/#.VCNBVS5dWv1">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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    September 23, 2014: Triple Moon View
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/09/An_interacting_colossus">ESA/Hubble/NASA</a>
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    An interacting colossus

    September 22, 2014: The Peacock Galaxy
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/09/Perspective_view_of_Hooke_crater_in_Argyre_basin">ESA/DLR/FU Berlin</a>
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    Perspective-view-of-Hooke-crater-in-Argyre-basin

    September 21, 2014: Perspective View of Hooke Crater on Mars
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/chandra/multimedia/chandra-15th-anniversary-crab-nebula.html#.VBxyji5dXt5">NASA/CXC/SAO</a>
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    September 20, 2014: X-Ray View of the Crab Nebula
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/starry-sky-from-the-space-station/#.VBxvFi5dXt4">NASA</a>
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    September 19, 2014: Starry Sky From the Space Station
  • September 18 2014 New Horizons Hydra Flyby
    <a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20140912.php">NASA/JHUAPL/SRI</a>
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    September 18, 2014: New Horizons Hydra Flyby
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    < HREF="">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</A>
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    September 17, 2014: Crescent Moon Over Saturn
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nustar/pia18836/#.VBsljC6wKmM">NASA/JPL-Caltech/SAO</a>
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    September 16, 2014: Pulsating Core of a Star
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    <a href="http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037237_1435">ESA/NASA</a>
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    Space-Aurora

    September 15, 2014: Astronaut's View of Aurora
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    <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1044a/">ESO/R. Chini</a>
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    September 14, 2014: Portrait of the Swan Nebula
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    <a href="http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037237_1435">ESA/NASA</a>
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    September 13, 2014: Weird Mars Crater
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    <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0650a/">ESO/R. Fosbury (ST-ECF)</a>
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    September 12, 2014: Dramatic Nebulas
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    <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18282">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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    September 11, 2013: Tiny Mimas Shines in Saturn's Shadow
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    <a href="http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037222_1820">NASA/JPL/University of Arizona</a>
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    September 10, 2014: Strange Cones and Flows on Mars
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-sees-spiral-in-serpens/#.VAqcC7xdWv1">ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt</a>
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    Spiral in Serpens

    September 9, 2014: Hubble Spies a Spiral in Serpens
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    <a href="http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/09/04/cometwatch-2-september/">ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM</a>
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    September 8, 2014: Rosetta's Comet Mosaic
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    <a href="">NASA/JPL/University of Arizona</a>
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    September 7, 2014: New Martian Impact
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    <a href="http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/SH2-136">Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona</a>
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    September 6, 2014: The Ghosts of Cepheus
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    <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6537">NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</a>
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    September 5, 2014: Curiosity's Dust-Up
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/08/Magnetar_discovered_close_to_supernova_remnant_Kesteven_79">ESA/XMM-Newton/ Ping Zhou, Nanjing University, China</a>
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    September 4, 2014: Magnetar Discovered Near Supernova Remnant
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    <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1427/">ESO</a>
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    The Dark Cloud Lupus 4

    September 3, 2014: The Dark Cloud Lupus
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    <a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/08/Comet_on_23_August_2014_-_NavCam">ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM</a>
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    September 2, 2014: Comet Close-Up
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mro/pia18594/#.U-zoVoBdXt4">NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona</a>
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    September 1, 2014: The Beginning of a Martian Stonehenge?
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