The Best Picture Of The Year |
The photos below were voted by readers as the best images of the past year... |
1. Swallowed whole |
A rainbow trout fingerling peers
out from the gullet of a northern pike at the Alaska Department of Fish
& Game aquarium in Anchorage. |
2. A romp in Russia |
A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo.
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3. Moonshot |
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.
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4. Red Square reflection |
The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square on Feb. 13.
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5. A galaxy's sharp edge |
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.
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6. Light of the world |
This composite image shows what Earth looks like at night. City lights highlight developed areas of the planet.
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7. Mother and child |
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.
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8. A useful lesson |
A German Shepherd named Pepper
sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a cougar cub,
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9. Great white whale |
A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.
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10.Puppy love |
Crystal, a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence.
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11.The gathering storm |
Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.
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12. The little duckling who could |
Mallard ducklings wait their turn May
14 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in South Bend, Ind. The mother,
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13. Mideast flare-up |
A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23.
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14. Rainbow times two |
An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27.
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15. Fury from above |
Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14.
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16. Grand old night |
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.
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17.Un-bear-able heat |
Koluk the polar bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15.
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18. Stellar light show |
From ground-based telescopes, the "ant nebula" resembles the head and thorax of a garden ant.
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Hope that you saw all the pictures. Because not one of them should be missed!!! They are just too spectacular!!
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╭☆ 歡迎光臨 Annie's 彩虹之家 ★╯ |