Most Amazing Science Images of 2010

[Brazoo]

Some of these are amazingly sublime - others are just kooky and odd.

Worth checking out for sure!

Gallery: The Most Amazing Science Images of 2010 | Popular Science

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Gamma Ray Bubbles
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
A Harvard astronomer and his team have turned up something quite big while running publicly available data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and by big we mean both in scientific magnitude and in astronomical size: two massive gamma-ray emitting bubbles extending 25,000 light-years both north and south of the Milky Way’s center. The researchers aren’t sure where they come from or why they’re there, but the discovery of this massive new structure in the heart of our own galaxy is being equated to discovering a new continent on Earth.




The Year's Best Microphotograph
Jonas King
This close-up of a mosquito heart is the winner of this year's Nikon Small World microphotography contest.



Laundry Bot
University of California at Berkeley
This laundry-folding robot takes us one step closer to a true Jetsons future. Hello, Rosie! Check out our post for an adorable video of the PR2 bot.

[Sandman9580]

Exciting stuff! Though a lot of it just underscores how incomprehensible most of the world has become to me.

And those huge "gamma-ray emitting bubbles" look terrifying.

[Brazoo]

Exciting stuff! Though a lot of it just underscores how incomprehensible most of the world has become to me. .

Haha - exactly! I always feel like the more I learn the dumber I get!