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The Greatest Images and Imaginations in Astronomy and Space Exploration

Sights Nominees

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We spy on these spectacular objects, whose true beauty can only be revealed once the photographic plate has remembered far more photons than the human eye can ever hope to collect in an instant.

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Popular Culture Nominees

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The role of astronomy – the heavens – in popular culture paints a story arc of mankind’s evolving self-perception. Through it, you’ll discover something about your species you many never have noticed, but something, deep down in your heart, you always knew.

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The Greatest Images and Imaginations in Astronomy and Space Exploration

People Nominees

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These represent, with apologies to Walt Disney, the imagineers of Astronomy and Space Exploration. Without them, we’d be nothing but apes throwing bones at an alien black monolith.

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Events Nominees

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When an incident defines an age, represents a significant turning point or marks an inspirational theme, the moment stands at a halt, a still-life image forever etched in our collective cultural conscious.

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The Greatest Images and Imaginations in Astronomy and Space Exploration

Engineering Nominees

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In today’s wonderful world of whizzing widgets and killer apps, sometimes we neglect to give the hardware its full due. Here, we honor the end products of those who think the perfect gift is a bigger and better tool box.

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