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Fake Photos

This photo arrived with the following caption:
This is a pretty awesome picture ... Can you imagine the look on the photographers face ... When the lightning flashes, this is not what you want to see.   This is a picture [taken by] someone who works on an oil rig.   He was going to take a picture of the lightning and was unaware of the tornado until the lightning illuminated it.
It's a fake.   See Oil Rig Tornado Photo Hoax.

Another fake photo, ostensibly in Florida, or maybe in Australia.   The sign doesn't fit the perspective of the rest of the photo, and the caption is just too perfect for the situation. See Hikers and bikers, keep right

Another fake, from an unknown source. The central figure may have magical powers, but I doubt he can repeal the law of gravity.

Hubble Space Telescope photos

Sombrero Galaxy

Ant Nebula

Nebula NGC 2392 ("Eskimo")

Cat's Eye Nebula.

Hourglass Nebula

Cone Nebula

Swan Nebula (partial)

"Starry Night" (after the Van Gogh painting)

Merging galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163

Trifid Nebula

White albino moose

Photographed by an unknown photographer near Marenisco, Gogebic County, Michigan.





Stingray Migration

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico . The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves, they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula . Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.