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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    May 18, 2014: Olber's Paradox
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