Awesome Astro Pictures!

Some cool pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope (alas, not all taken within the past year, but very cool nonetheless!):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html

Also, Phil Plait's Top 10 Astronomy Pictures of 2008:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/17/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2008/

yay!