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.
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .