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.
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
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 .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
