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From an explosion on the sun to creatures from the depths of the ocean, we assemble our favorite pics from 2012.
It's been a great year for science--Curiosity! The Higgs Boson!--and intrepid photographers have been there all along to document it. Narrowing our favorite photos down to just a dozen wasn't easy, but here they are. Until next year, everybody.
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