Wired Science’s Most Popular Space Stories of 2009

Wired Science’s Most Popular Space Stories of 2009:

We love space, and so do you. This is a fact, well established by our Christmas-morning-level anticipation every time Hubble or Cassini or Spitzer release a new image, and your happy, clicky, tweety responses to virtually anything we post that has to do with space.
So we were surprised to find that there was just one space story among our most popular stories for 2009. Our “Earth from space” galleries and posts did well, but we don’t think those qualify as space stories. The sole celestial finalist was just a simple reminder that the annual Perseids meteor shower was peaking, with some viewing tips.
The Perseids are great and all, but we couldn’t let space be this underrepresented in our 2009 roundups, so here are the rest of our most popular spacey offerings of the year.
Image: NASA/JPL/CICLOPS