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On some level, being an official NASA photographer must be a pretty easy job. I mean, there are simply so many incredible and fascinating things to take photos of. Astronauts? Rockets? Wind tunnels? It’d be pretty difficult to make that stuff not look spectacular.
Which is why the winners of this year’s NASA Photographer of the Year Awards are, once again, so thrilling. For the fourth year running, the agency has revealed its favorite shots from its own official photographers, with the winning images ranging from barren test sites and ginormous wind tunnels to flashy fighter jets and stoic astronauts.
The pics are all very flashy, cool and intergalactic. You can view the official gallery in full here, but below we’ve picked a few of our favorites, including...
A selfie from an F-15 cockpit
An engineering technician testing space equipment
An enormous wind chamber
A fancy SpaceX rocket
And a futuristic (and slightly creepy) anechoic chamber
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