Best pics of the year

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The photos below were voted by readers as the best images of the past year...

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


3. Moonshot
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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
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The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square on Feb. 13.


5. A galaxy's sharp edge
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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


6. Light of the world
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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
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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.


8. A useful lesson
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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


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

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10.Puppy love
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Crystal, a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence


11.The gathering storm
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Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.


12. The little duckling who could
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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

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13. Mideast flare-up
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A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23


14. Rainbow times two
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An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27.


15. Fury from above
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Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14.

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16. Grand old night
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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,



17.Un-bear-able heat
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Koluk the polar bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15.



18. Stellar light show
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From ground-based telescopes, the "ant nebula" resembles the head and thorax of a garden ant.

HOPE THAT U SAW ALL THE PICS... COS NOT ONE OF THEM SHOULD BE MISSED!!!

THEY'RE JUST TOO SPECTACULAR!!