Century best pics Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an F/A-18 Homet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7. The cloud ball effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the air. Black sun the last solar eclipse of the millennium is seen in this multiple exposure photograph as it appeared from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug 11. A room with a view French jets fly over Dubais Burj Al-Arab, the worlds tallest sea-based hotel, on Nov 12 during preparations for the Dubai Air Show. A NASA Hubble space telescope photo reveals the spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found. Falling for colour hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan on Nov 3, as drivers slow down to admire the colourfully tinted leaves of autumn. Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdis opera Ein Maskenball on July 15. The design of the stage in the lake shows Death reading the book of life. |