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.
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .