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.
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .