Black sun The last solar eclipse of the millennium is seen in this multiple exposure photograph as it appeared from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 11.
Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal
of Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Ein Maskenball' on July 15. The design of the
stage in the lake shows 'Death' reading the book of life.
Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an F/A-18
Hornet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7. The cloud ball
effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the air.
A NASA Hubble space telescope photo reveals the spiral galaxy NGC 4603,
the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating
stars called Cepheid variables have been found.
Falling for color Hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan, on
Nov. 3, as drivers Slow down to admire the colorfully tinted leaves of
autumn.
A room with a view French jets fly over Dubai's Burj Al-Arab, the
world's tallest sea-based hotel, on Nov. 12 during preparations for the
Dubai AirShow.
If you were alive at the time, you know where you were when you
learned the space shuttle Challenger had exploded shortly after
liftoff,Jan. 28,1986. The entire crew was killed in the accident, which
was blamed on faulty o-rings in the booster rockets.
Seattle style An unidentified woman regains control of her umbrella,
but not her hair,Feb. 22 before ducking into an office building in
downtown Seattle,Wash.
Lightning strikes over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during a
violent storm Sept. 8.
A funnel cloud moves across the sky in Salt Lake City on Aug. 11.
At least four people were killed and more than 100 were injured when
the Freak storm touched down in the city.
