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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