IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK. Located millions of light years away from Earth, the patterns burst with colour but are unable to be seen clearly with the naked eye. Photographer Terry Hancock captured the images using a specialist astronomy camera attached to a telescope, from the comfort of his own back garden in Fremont, Michigan, USA. The 61-year-old sales manager, originally from Burnley, Lancashire, says: “My pictures are all long exposures of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters, which range in distance from thousands to many millions of light years away from Earth.
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
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WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .