The sun rises over St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay on the Northumberland coast as a flock of Lapwing seabirds fly past on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

A Ukrainian woman carrying groceries walks on August 8, 2022 past a cordoned location where a man died in a Russian cluster-bomb attack Monday morning local time in Kharkiv outside a residential area, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow continues to bear down on Ukraine with ferocity, especially in Donetsk and Luhansk. (Photo by Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)

Afghan girls ride a donkey along a street in Argo district at Badakhshan province on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)

Burdened with a shawl full of her belongings, a woman stops for a rest on the road between Julaca and Puno in Peru. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955

World's Greatest Swimming Pools: Four Seasons, Serengeti Pool, Tanzania. A show of elephants, buffalo and baboons awaits thanks to an active watering hole below the free-form infinity pool at this plush hideaway inside Serengeti National Park. Bonus: Because of infrared technology at the hole, guests can be notified on their bedroom TV when animals are approaching. When you've got word of wildlife on the horizon, catch them from your private terrace – or head back to the pool. (From $1,650). (Photo by Four Seasons)

Actors perform in a scene during the “Dino Safari” show in Tokyo, Japan, 25 April 2018. The Dino Safari show features dinosaurs moving in a realistic way thanks to the Dino-Tronics mechanism that enable the dinosaurs to walk, move their heads and jaws. The event will run from 26 April to 05 May 2018. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)

“Red Land: Sunset Cloud Village is one of the most picturesque places in Red Land, China. As its name indicates, it's best to see before sunset. The reddish brown soil turns redder after rainfall and after farmers plow the land”. (Photo and comment by Peng Jiang/National Geographic Photo Contest via The Atlantic)

On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. (Photo by NASA/GSFC/SDO via The Atlantic)