Worth a reshare and worth checking out the links to the photos that +Philip Plait picked…

Worth a reshare and worth checking out the links to the photos that +Philip Plait picked for best photos of the year…

Reshared post from +Rosa Golijan

"The Universe is beautiful.

Which is interesting. It doesn’t have to be; it could be all colorless and weird and lumpy. Instead, it’s bursting with color, sculpted by vast forces, molded into fantastic shapes that please our eyes and delight our brains — especially once we understand what we’re seeing."

+Philip Plait — the guy behind the Bad Astronomy blog — picked out what he believes are the "Best Astronomy Images of 2012." This is my favorite of the ones he choose.

The rest of the images:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astronomy/2012/12/best_astronomy_images_2012_see_the_most_beautiful_images_of_the_universe.single.html

Image via ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2.