2) 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.

3) 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.

4) Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an
F/A-18 Hornet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7. The cloud
ball effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the
air.

5) 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.

6) A NASA Hubble 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.