Gallery: WIRED Space Photo of the Day for June 2014

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    Photos by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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    June 30, 2014: Mimas and Rings
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    NASA/CXC/SAO
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    Perseus galaxy cluster.
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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    June 28, 2014: Curiosity Selfie at Windjana
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    Photos by ESO/B. Tafreshi
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    The Milky Way glitters brightly over ALMA

    June 27, 2014: Glittering Milky Way
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    Photos by ESA/Hubble & NASA
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    Violent birth announcement from an infant star

    June 26, 2014: Young Stellar Jets
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    Photos by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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    June 25, 2014: Mercury Minerals
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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    June 24, 2014: Hello, Goodbye Phoebe
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    ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgemen
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    A curious supernova in NGC 2441

    June 23, 2014: Strange Supernova
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    Photos by T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
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    June 22, 2014: The Lagoon Nebula
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    Photos by NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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    June 21, 2014: Enormous Blast from the Sun
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    Photos by X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al, Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    The Cygnus OB2 star cluster is about 5,000 light years from Earth and contains many massive young stars.

    June 20, 2014: Probing a Stellar Cradle
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    Photos by ESA/Hubble & NASA
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    A dwarf galaxy ravaged by grand design

    June 19, 2014: Ravaged Dwarf Galaxy
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    Photos by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    June 18, 2014: Future Fate of Our Galaxy?
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS
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    Within the swaddling dust of the Serpens Cloud Core, astronomers are studying one of the youngest collections of stars ever seen in our galaxy. This infrared image combines data from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope with shorter-wavelength observations from

    June 17, 2014: Young Hatchling Stars
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    Photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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    June 16, 2014: New Meteors in the Dust
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    Photos by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    June 15, 2014: Soaring Eagle Nebula
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    Photos by ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: R. Buta (University of Alabama)
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    Golden rings of star formation

    June 14, 2014: Golden Ring of Stars
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    Photos by ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Whitman College
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    The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. The gigantic ring structure is situated at the center-top of this image. The od

    June 13, 2014: Weird Dusty Ring
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arecibo Observatory/USRA/NSF
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    June 12, 2014: Asteroid in Radar
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    Photos by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    June 11, 2014: Beautiful Galaxies
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    Photos by NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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    June 10, 2014: Tight Solar Loops
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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    June 9, 2014: Ring Wrecker
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    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Goddard
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    June 8, 2014: Dead-Star Detonation
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    Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Flickr user Det58
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    June 7, 2014: Seyfert-Class Galaxy
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    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    June 6, 2014: Curiosity Rover's Vista
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    Photo: ESA / XMM-Newton / F. Gastaldello (INAF/IASF) / CFHTLS
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    June 5, 2014: Dark Matter in the Bullet Group
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    Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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    June 4, 2014: Martian Dunes
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    June 3, 2014: Hubble's Colorful Universe
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    Photo: ESA/XMM-Newton/ L. Oskinova/M. Guerrero; CTIO/R. Gruendl/Y.H. Chu
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    June 2, 2014: Pulsar Encased in Supernova Bubble
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    Photo: Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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    June 1, 2014: Deep Space Vista
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