The journal Science and the National Science Foundation today announced the winners of the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The visual rendering of scientific subjects are, in a word, stunning. They range from educational posters to an illustration of a jellyfish burger to microscopic images of "cell-extracellular matrix interactions that occur during capillary formation within the lung."

The images aren't, strictly speaking, Annual Meeting news. But among the researchers, educators, journalists and others in San Diego, one imagines that thousands would appreciate the spectacle of science communicated so effectively, and so beautifully.

AAAS.org has a news release by AAAS writer Natasha Pinol, a slide show done by the staff of Science, a video, and more.

Check it out.