Gallery: The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images

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brucethebrat

from Kelowna, BC

Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, safely ended his 189-day mission aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 1 when he returned via the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft to Kazakhstan. Why are Canadians always invisible to US citizens?

TheInspiredOne

from Acton, Maine

I especially like "water Tight", "Volcano light Show",and "Transiting The Sun" These are all great images but those three really drew my attention. "Transiting the sun"really humbles the significance of man and his discoveries.Truly a transcending image. "Volcano Light Show" just captures a unnatural, or even extraterrestrial moment right here on our own planet, in the natural nature. And, "Water Tight" just captivates the imagination with a fancy display of colors and bent light that normally can only be created with the aid of computers, yet, is done scientifically. Just a surprising property of water that we normally don't get to see everyday.

I love the colors, it helps in understanding.

Wait, are those really magnetic monopoles? I thought monopoles were only theoretical...

Hairy ears remineds me of polyps corals. Does the electron scanning microscope produces actual colors like that?

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Sometimes we heard about the "first moon walk" by "Neil Armstrong" is fake.. What do you think about it ?

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Image 24 (Hearts Built to Order). Does this mean that they might be able to make new organs for transplant some time soon. Quite extraordinary!

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wow! the orange colored organ in image is awesome!
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brucethebrat

from Kelowna, BC
12/03/09 at 1:11 pm

Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, safely ended his 189-day mission aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 1 when he returned via the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft to Kazakhstan. Why are Canadians always invisible to US citizens?
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Sounds to me that the Canadian gov't. needs a better Public Relations firm

The brain array was simply awesome!

Wow! this picture is amazing for me.

Truly a transcending image. "Volcano Light Show" just captures a unnatural, or even extraterrestrial moment right here on our own planet, in the natural nature.
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Just a surprising property of water that we normally don't get to see everyday.
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Each hair cell is micromachine that is constructed from hundreds of much smaller components. Nevertheless, these complex molecules can exist in a number of stable states, and this cartoon accurately depicts the fact that mechanical stress modulates the state of conduction of ion channels.
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This may be a stupid question.Have they colored the hair cells dicital or does the electron micrograph know which color the hairs have. It doesn't make sens electron micrograph can't see color.As fare as i know. live

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that brain array was pretty gross.. interesting.. but never the less gross

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Wait, are those really magnetic monopoles? I thought monopoles were only theoretical...
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Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, safely ended his 189-day mission aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 1 when he returned via the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft to Kazakhstan. Why are Canadians always invisible to US citizens?

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