The tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Carina. (Photo by Reuters/NASA)

Ukranian Internet Goddess Valeria Lukyanova, also known as “real life Barbie”, landed a huge career milestone. V Magazine featured the barbie look-alike in their latest issue, November 15, 2012. (Photo by Sebastian Faena via V Magazine)

A cadet lies on the grass after collapsing during a promotion ceremony at a police school in Bogota December 7, 2012. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)

A derelict farm house adorns the horizon as it sits in a field in the Lancashire Countryside on January 26, 2012 in Burscough, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Children hitch a ride with a passing tram in Dnipro, Ukraine on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Jack Hill/The Times)

“I See Sea” by Photographer Dmytriy Dokunov. The frozen Black Sea. Scene of action: Odessa, Ukraine; January, 2012. (Photo by Dmytriy Dokunov)

These beautiful shots may look like works of modern art – but they are actually close-ups of chemical reactions. The works were snapped with the help of a group of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Anhui, China. Here: Zinc reacting with lead nitrate in a soft gel to form lead crystals. (Photo by Yan Liang/Caters News)