Total Solar Eclipse

The sun is covered by the moon during a total solar eclipse in the Indian city of Varanasi on July 22. The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century plunged millions across Asia into temporary darkness on Wednesday, triggering scenes of religious fervour, fear and excitement in India and China.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)

NGC-1097 Galaxy

This image provided by NASA this July 23, 2009 is a photo made by the Spitzer Space Telescope of the galaxy, called NGC-1097, is located 50 million light-years away. It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. The black hole is huge, about 100 million times the mass of our sun, and is feeding off gas and dust along with the occasional unlucky star. The galaxy's red spiral arms and the swirling spokes seen between the arms show dust heated by newborn stars. Older populations of stars scattered through the galaxy are blue. The fuzzy blue dot to the left, which appears to fit snuggly between the arms, is a companion galaxy. This image was taken during Spitzer's cold mission, before it ran out of liquid coolant.(AP Photo/NASA)

Hancock Eagle Cam

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Polar Bear Knut

Polar bear Knut plays with an old rotten soccer ball in the pool of his enclosure at the Berlin Zoo, on Friday, May 15, 2009.(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Maya Hitij)

Egret

A great egret stands tall as it feeds along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pa., Sunday, July 12, 2009.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Snow Leopard Cub

Checking out the scene : Snow Leopard cub Altai, watches from his mom's side in his enclosure at the zoo in Berlin (AFP/DDP/Kaveh Rostamkhani)

Field of Sunflowers

Field of sun : A sunflower field is seen near the small town of Berg in Lower Austria.(AFP/Samuel Kubani)

Newborn Ostrich Chicks

New born ostrich chicks walk in their enclosure at Berlin Zoo, July 7, 2009. Six ostriches hatched at the zoo on June 21 and 22. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Baby Black Rhinoceros

Cheeky rhino : A baby Black Rhinoceros sticks out its tounge as it walks in its enclosure at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Badlands National Park

This undated photo released by South Dakota Tourism shows a landscape at Badlands National Park, S.D.(AP Photo/South Dakota Tourism, Chad Coppess)

Supernova RCW 86

This NASA image received July 1, 2009 and created from data obtained from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86. Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.(AFP/NASA/File)

Panda Cub

Lin Hui, a seven-year-old giant panda mother, and her unnamed 43-day-old cub lie on the floor at the Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The little panda has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth.(AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)

Bengal Tiger Diving

Odin, a white Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat at the opening of the new Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Thursday, July 9, 2009, in Vallejo, Calif. (AP photo/Russel A. Daniels)

July Flowers

Dinosaur Discovery

A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis

July Fourth Dolphin

In this picture provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Liberty, a male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wears a hat and waves an American flag in honor of the Fourth of July at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Friday, July 3, 2009. Liberty, born on July 4, 1990, was named after his birth date, and this year turns 19 the same day the nation marks its 233rd year.(AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)

Flying Stingray

A stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a killer whale, whose fin can be seen below the ray, just off St. Heliers beach in Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, June 24, 2009.(AP Photo/New Zealand Herald Photograph, Brett Phibbs)