Wired Science Presents Best Space Photos of 2012

The Flame Nebula

For the past year, Wired has been featuring amazing and breathtaking photographs of space and everything in it. Wired Science Space Photo of the Day has shown around 240 pictures since it started the section in February 2012.

Now, Wired has chosen 18 photographs and named it the best space photographs from the collection. The photographs features amazing epic photographs like the The Flame Nebula (pictured above) to the Cookie Monster crater in Mercury and even the Blue Dunes of Mars.

The space images have been sourced from space organizations like NASA, ESO, and ESA, and the quality and resolution are absolutely top notch. Some of the images have even been shown here in Quantum Day since Quantum Day is recognized as Press for ESO, ESA, and Hubble Space Telescope.

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2012 In Science: One Year of ScienceShots Images

The journal Science collated all the images they posted on their ScienceShots section for the year 2012. ScienceShots features short news items where the picture is often as stunning as the story itself.

There are 350 plus images featured this year and each of these images have an interesting story to tell. Aside from this, Science also posted a separate article their favorite images from the collection.

Earlier this week, Science also announced the scientific breakthrough for 2012 which was the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Science is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).