2015 was a captivating year in science.
We reached Pluto, the world agreed to a landmark climate deal in Paris, and private spaceflight hit its stride. Many of this year's events have created amazing images, including the one below, of Pluto, with psychedelic false colors representing its surface textures.
Check out 50 of our favorite science images from this year below.
After 9 years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto, and the images it beamed back, like this natural color image of Pluto, took our planet by storm.
Private spaceflight reached new heights this year. The dueling companies — Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins — both had a few hiccups during takeoff and landing of their rockets this year.
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But Blue Origins launched its reusable, suborbital rocket 62 miles above the Earth and successfully landed it back in Texas in November.
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