精采摄影

A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game aquarium in Anchorage.

Flying at nearly 35,000 feet, a jet passes over the disk of a winter half moon above Boston on Jan. 3 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.

wow!如果这不是电脑合成的话，那这个拍摄的人就是非常幸运的捕捉到这个瞬间了。amazing!

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, and her child look through the window of a bus as they arrive in Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, after fleeing the fighting in Macedonia two days earlier.

A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a cougar cub, far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney, Australia.

A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.

A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo.

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., gets a good seat on top of his mother's car July 4 for the fireworks show at Riverside Park in New London.

喜歡第一頁的最後一張﹐還有上面這張。

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.