Swallowed Hole
A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo
Flying at nearly 35,000 feet, a jet passes over the disk of a winter half moon above Boston. The jet leaves contrails in its wake due to the temperature difference between the hot engine exhaust and the cold air
The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square on Feb. 13.
An image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, released March 1, shows a perfect "edge-on" perspective of the galaxy NGC 4013, with huge clouds of dust and gas extending above the galaxy's main disk
This composite image shows what Earth looks like at night. City lights highlight developed areas of the planet.
An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium. Crystal a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning. Mallard ducklings wait their turn May 14 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted with traffic for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the busy road A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23 An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27. Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14 Tanner Mann, 8, of Hortonville, Wis. Koluk the polar bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15. From ground-based telescopes, the "ant nebula" resembles the head and thorax of a garden ant
