February 2010: Delicate intimacy between two tango dancers practising in the shade of an old verandah while waiting to perform in the street in Buenos Aires.	January 2010: Bradley Michaud, a well-known contemporary dancer and choreographer, shot overlooking downtown LA	November 2009: Moody sunset from my gate	September 2009: Storybook Wolf by José Luis Rodriguez
August 2009: Butterfly on my rocks	July 2009: Wild poppy in my garden	June 2009: Stunning flower in my holly pot	May 2009: Our moorhen chicks
April 2009: Viola	March 2009: Bee in blossom	February 2009: Lacey shelters under Salt & Pepper in the snow	January 2009: Little Lil and her enormous egg
December 2008: Swans swim in a small lock after council workers rounded them up from Hamburg’s inner city lake, the Alster. Every year the swans are collected from waterways around the northern German city of Hamburg and taken to winter quarters, where they are fed and cared for until the spring	November 2008: This is Barney on a Jetty in Hove, East Sussex. This is the winning Landscape Photographer of the Year 2008 photograph.	October 2008: A flower in my garden	September 2008: The US Olympic team performs its synchronised swimming technical routine at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing - doesn't this just make you smile?
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July 2008: Madonna at 50.  Impressive!	June 2008: A World Wildlife Fund activist, his body painted as a Sumatran tiger, crouches near large poster during a campaign for the animal's protection in Jakarta, Indonesia	May 2008: Wildebeest gather at the top of a hill at sunset after crossing the Mara river during the annual migration through the Massai Mara National park in Western Kenya	April 2008:
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Background to August 2008 pic:

Astronomers have shed light on how stars can form around a massive black hole, defying conventional wisdom.

The simulations show how the clouds are pulled apart by the immense gravitational pull of the black hole.  The disrupted clouds form into spiral patterns as they orbit the black hole; the spiral patterns remove motion energy from gas that passes close to the black hole and transfers it to gas that passes further out.  This allows part of the cloud to be captured by the black hole while the rest escapes.  In these conditions, only high mass stars are able to form and these stars inherit the eccentric orbits from the elliptical disc.  These results match the two primary properties of the young stars in the centre of our galaxy: their high mass and their eccentric orbits around the supermassive black hole.

For full article see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7574255.stm 

Background to March 2008 pic:

A composite image of ultraviolet, green and deep red light shows the detailed structure of hot, moderate and cool stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770.

Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona have released the first images taken using its two giant 8m diameter mirrors.  The detailed pictures show a spiral galaxy located 102 million light-years away from the Milky Way.  LBT has been 20 years in the making but promises to allow astronomers to probe the Universe further back in time and in more detail than ever before.

Background to October 2006 pic:

It may look like the Eye of Sauron from The Lord Of The Rings but this is actually the latest photograph of distant galaxy Andromeda.  The infrared image, taken using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals a dust ring deep within the galaxy which has never been seen before.  Scientists believe it was formed 210million years ago when another galaxy, known as M32, collided with Andromeda. The collision has led scientists to reassess their belief that the galaxy is a perfect example of galactic tranquillity where not much happens.

Andromeda, which is named after a mythological princess and is shrouded by a haze of cosmic dust, is 1.5 times bigger than our own Milky Way and 2.5 million light years away. Scientists predict the two galaxies will collide in about 3 billion years, with neither expected to survive.