A photograph from Harleysville, Pennsylvania on 14 January 2005 of an amazing sunset. Photograph by Andrew Crouthamel.
The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a bright nearby spiral galaxy. The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name. Something very energetic is going on in the Sombrero's center, as much X-ray light has been detected from it. This X-ray emission coupled with unusually high central stellar velocities cause many astronomers to speculate that a black hole lies at the Sombrero's center - a black hole a billion times the mass of our Sun.
This image shows a cloud to cloud lightning in a very stormy and rainy night in Zwickau, Germany.
AstronautStephen K. Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, anchored to a foot restraint on the International Space Station’s Canadarm2, participates in the mission’s third session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The blackness of space and Earth’s horizon form the backdrop for the image (3 August 2005).
A timed exposure of the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night-time fantasy of light. To the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structures.
Golden Gate Bridge at looking south-south-east by night looking south across the Golden Gate towards San Francisco.
Hot spring at Leirhnjúkur, Iceland
Brooklyn bridge at night, New York city, NY.
Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance. – It shows a realistic disturbance (caused by shortly dipping a stick into the water) and its expansion forming interfering circles of limited concentricity. The near metallic appearance of the water's surface is due to the small angle of illumination.
Asian Arowana.
Montreal City Hall.
Parus major, Poland
Apollo 17 mission, 11 December 1972.
The wake after the ferry to Fanø, Denmark
Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus), a popular aquarium fish from South America.
Sunrise on the mountain Ruppberg near Zella-Mehlis (Thuringian Forest, Germany)
Sunset of the Forbidden City, Beijing (northwest cornor of the Forbidden City)
Adidas World of Football (TM) in Berlin; ticket selling points during the rehearsal of the opening ceremony.
A view of Rio de Janeiro in the direction of Copacabana and Ipanema, from Sugarloaf mountain.