Given the traditional conversion rate of pictures to text, it’s worth spending 12,000 words talking about all the amazing scientific sights captured in 2014. But instead, we’re going to let these amazing snapshots—representing the microscopic, the universal, and everything in between—speak for themselves.
Robotic drones are giving scientists a better-than-ever view of killer whales. Image Credit: Vancouver Aquarium/NOAA
The deepest-ever view of a cluster of galaxies, courtesy of the Hubble Telescope. Image Credit: NASA
After large, mysterious holes popped up throughout Siberia this year, Russian scientists were sent to investigate. One of the earliest theories behind the craters was that thawing permafrost is behind the phenomenon, but it’s still too soon to say for sure. Image Credit: Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration
Devastating floods turned cities and towns across Kashmir into archipelagoes of houses. Image Credit: Google Crisis Maps
A solar eclipse on the savannah in Kenya. Image Credit: Eugen Kamenew
A new technique for preparing specimens allows researchers to create windows into organ structure, as evidenced by this see-through mouse. Image Credit: RIKEN
Scientists put these tiny 3D glasses on praying mantises to test their vision. Image Credit: Newcastle University
The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan in 2000, on the left, and 2014, on the right. Irrigation and dry seasons have nearly drained the sea. Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
One of the first close-up images of Comet 67P, the target of the Rosetta spacecraft and its lander Philae. The lander touched down on the comet in November. Image Credit: ESA / NASA
A mouse brain with the neurovasculature traced in red. Image Credit: Ali Erturk / Nikon Small World
This picture, from September, shows 35,000 walruses clustered on an Alaskan shore. Many researchers say the loss of sea ice means these animals can no longer spread out as they’re accustomed to. Image Credit: Corey Accardo / NASA
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio snapped a selfie on a spacewalk in April. Image Credit: NASA / Rick Mastracchio
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