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The Most Mind-Blowing Space Photos of 2013

Another year has gone by and left us with a stack of incredible, mind-blowing pictures of space. We've gathered the best of 2013's images of stars, galaxies, planets, and nebulas into our second WIRED Space Photo of the Day collection. We're celebrating with a gallery of our favorites from among the 365 we hand-picked every day this year. Highlights include young stars being born in the Large Magellanic Cloud, new views of both the Andromeda galaxy and Horsehead nebula, and an achingly beautiful picture of Saturn.
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Oct. 19: Saturn From Above
Another year has gone by and left us with a stack of incredible, mind-blowing pictures of space. We've gathered the best of 2013's images of stars, galaxies, planets, and nebulas into our second WIRED Space Photo of the Day collection. We're celebrating with a gallery of our favorites from among the 365 we hand-picked every day this year. Highlights include young stars being born in the Large Magellanic Cloud, new views of both the Andromeda Galaxy and Horsehead Nebula, and the achingly beautiful picture of Saturn above. Here's to another amazing year of space photos and the never-ending wonder of the universe.

Oct. 19: Saturn From Above

Amateur image processor and Cassini fan Gordan Ugarkovic stitched together 12 awesome photos from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and produced one of the best pictures of the ringed planet we've ever seen. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic [high-resolution, seriously click this] Original caption: NASA