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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. |
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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. |
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A room with a view – French jets fly over Dubai’s Burj Al-Arab, the
world’s tallest sea-based hotel, on Nov 12 during preparations for the Dubai Air
Show. |
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A NASA Hubbell 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. |
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Falling for color – hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan on Nov 3, as
drivers slow down to admire the colorfully tinted leaves of autumn. |
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| Singers perform on
a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera
‘Ein Maskenball’ on July 15. The design of the stage in the lake shows
‘Death’ reading the book of life. |
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