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Space Shuttle Discovery

Photographer George Bailey shares this spectacular picture he shot during last night's Space Shuttle launch. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Blackhole art

An artist's concept chronicles the star being ripped apart and swallowed by a black hole over time. First, the intact sun-like star (left) ventures too close to the black hole, and its own self-gravity is overwhelmed by the black hole's gravity. The star then stretches apart (middle yellow) and eventually breaks into stellar crumbs, some of which swirl into the black hole (at right). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout/Reuters)

How neat!

Winter Holiday Sky

Cassiopeia

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and provided on Thursday Oct. 26, 2006 shows the scattered remains of an exploded star named Cassiopeia A. Spitzer's infrared detectors 'picked' through these remains and found that much of the star's original layering had been preserved. In this false-color image, the faint, blue glow surrounding the dead star is material that was energized by a shock wave, called the forward shock, which was created when the star blew up. The forward shock is now located at the outer edge of the blue glow. Stars are also seen in blue. Green, yellow and red primarily represent material that was ejected in the explosion and heated by a slower shock wave, called the reverse shock wave. (AP Photo/NASA)

Andromeda

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is shown in this infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and released by on October 18, 2006. Astronomers have new evidence that the Andromeda spiral galaxy was involved in a violent head-on collision with the neighboring dwarf galaxy Messier 32 (M32) more than 200 million years ago. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Block - Anglo American Cosmic Dust Lab, SA/Handout/Reuters)

Donald Duck on fire

While snapping pictures of the Epcot laser show (Disneyworld Florida) on 26SEP06, I captured this image that seems to show Donald Duck rising like the phoenix from the flame. And this time he's a HUGE flame. Watch out, he looks angry.

--JoeSnuffie

Nope, no way I'd do this!

Hawaiian Pete Cabrinha rides a 70-foot wave to win the title for the biggest wave ever ridden at Jaws in Hawaii in this undated handout photograph. The waves have been nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven story building. (Billabong/Erik Aeder/Handout/Reuters)

September 11,2001

Glendalough Region, Ireland

My parents visited Ireland this past year and I think this area is one of my favourites. They toured this beautiful mountainous region. The second photo shows the lower lake.

This place is so neat!

The Twelve Apostles - coastal rock formation on the Great Ocean Road at Port Campbell Victoria Australia. Renowned for its spectacular coastal scenery the Great Ocean Road follows the contours of Victoria's rugged southwest coast. One of the most visited sections is the Port Campbell National Park home to the Twelve Apostles - limestones rock stacks rising from the ocean formed as a result of erosion by rain, gale force winds and wild seas. In actual fact there are only nine but the remains of 4 to 6 are submerged.This part of the Victorian coastline is known as the Shipwreck Coast and is responsible for the sinking of up to eighty vessels some of which were transporting workers to the Australian goldfields in the latter part of the 19th century.

Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia

Thank you Gina E.

Misty rainbow

Iridescent cloud

A rare and spectacular nacreous cloud (top) appears high in the stratosphere some 20km above Australia's Mawson station in Antartica, July 2006. Australian scientists have said they were studying what rare iridescent clouds over Antarctica can reveal about global climate change.(AFP/Australian Antarctic Division/File) http://tinyurl.com/htqlg

My rainbow