Best Picture Of Tear 2005 - 1

Great white whale

A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.

A useful lesson
A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal
tiger cubs and a cougar cub, far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney, Australia.

Mother and child
An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia, and her
child look through the window of a bus as they arrive in
Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, after fleeing the fighting in Macedonia two days earlier.

Light of the world
This composite image shows what Earth looks like at night. City lights highlight developed areas of the planet.

A galaxy's sharp edge
An image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, released
March 1, shows a perfect "edge-on" perspective of the galaxy
NGC 4013, with huge clouds of dust and gas extending above the galaxy's main disk.

Red Square reflection
The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square on Feb. 13.

Moonshot
Flying at nearly 35,000 feet, a jet passes over the disk of a
winter half moon above Boston on Jan. 3. The jet leaves
contrails in its wake due to the temperature difference between the hot engine exhaust and the cold air.

A Romp in Russia.

A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo .

Swallowed whole
A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a
northern pike at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game aquarium in Anchorage.