ASTOUNDING ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES TAKEN IN GARDEN

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.

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PEEKABOO SQUIRRELS EMERGE FROM THEIR NEST

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ADORABLE ORANGUTAN TURNS ONE

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BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS BROUGHT TO LIFE

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ADORABLE SQUIRREL TRIES HER HAND AT PHOTOGRAPHY

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YOGA BEAR

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

THIRSTY SQUIRREL TAKES A BREAK

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AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: HOTEL WITH A TWIST

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WOOLWICH MURDER OF BRITISH SOLDIER

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

FALSE KILLER WHALE BEAMS AS HE CATCHES HIS LUNCH

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HITCHHIKING BIRDS

LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .