TIME's new cover: The best photos of 2022. It’s different this time. That was the sentiment humming in the background, and sometimes roaring quite loudly, throughout 2022. It’s what was said when young people started rising up in the streets of Iran in support of women’s rights; when the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine; when millions of people showed up to vote to send a country in a new direction. The top 100 photos of 2022, an unranked selection carefully curated by TIME’s photo editors, aim to show in pictures that this year was indeed different. See them all at the link in our bio. Image by NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl