AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns. Captured 20 million light years away, this is star gazing at its best. These amazing photographs were taken by English sales manager Terry Hancock, 60. He is able to capture the astounding images from his back garden in Michigan, America. ‘My astronomy photographs all show deep sky objects, many of them thousands or millions of light years away from Earth,’ says Terry, originally of Burnley, Lancashire.
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .