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Samuel Volery, a professional mountaineer, balances on the ‘highline’ during the Highline Extreme event on the top of the Moleson mountain at 2,000 meters above the sea level, in the Swiss Alps, near Fribourg, Switzerland, 26 September 2015. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/EPA/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: epalive842005
Extreme Highline. I won’t be checking this off my must-do list any time soon! I mean, this takes “up in the clouds,” to a whole new level. Check out more incredible pictures of the Extreme Highline sport, back at Newscom.
Newscom gets between 30-60,000 images a day from our partners around the world, and it’s easy to miss some truly amazing images if you aren’t specifically looking for them. So each week, we’ll go through our collections and present to you our favorites. Our job is to pick whatever catches our eye. Your job is to simply enjoy them. Find the entire lightbox of this week’s best pictures back at Newscom, and read on to see other news and stories from this past week.
The super blood moon put on a spectacular show a few nights ago. Cue, the facebook pictures and posts! Leaving it up to the professionals, Newscom has a great selection of amazing pictures of this rare event from space. Check them out!
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Green Valley, Arizona, United States: A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen through the clouds during a total lunar eclipse. The combination of a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse last occurred in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033. Tom Donoghue/Polaris/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: polphotos370273
In other space news — Mars + Water = major flock to the new film, The Martian.
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Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field. The imaging and topographical information in this processed, false-color view come from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Polaris/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: polspphotos169583
And, this beautiful picture from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is pretty phenomenal.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. This view is a mosaic of six Hubble pictures of a small area roughly two light-years across, covering only a tiny fraction of the nebula’s vast structure. ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericasthirteen541218
U.S. President Barack Obama, and Russian President Vladimir Putin share an awkward toast at the UN General Assembly — but only because UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was giving them the “please play nice” stare …
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US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L-R seated) clink their glasses during a breakfast on behalf of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in honor of the heads of the delegations participating in the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Amanda Voisard/UN Photo/TASS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: tassphotoslive600936
Surprising just about everyone, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner announced his resignation, only days after the Pope’s visit to Washington D.C.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) listens as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan speaks following a Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill, December 10, 2013, in Washington, D.C. On September 25, 2015, Speaker of the House Boehner announced he will resign. KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: upiphotostwo406354
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Pope Francis, foreground bottom, arrives with House and Senate leadership as well as local clergy to gather on the balcony of the Speaker of the House after he delivered an address to a joint session of Congress on September, 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. From left are Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, Rep. Nancy Pelosi(D-CA), Rep. John Bohner, Rep. Kevin McCarthy(R-CA), Pope Francis, Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Mitch McConnell(R-KY), Sen. Harry Reid(D-NV), and Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky Joseph Kurtz. BILL O”LEARY/UPI/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: upiphotostwo405778
Scroll down to see other great photos from this week. Also, be sure to check back next week, for more of your favorite Editors’ Picks photos.
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Wrangell St. Elias National Park, AK, United States of America – A summer rain sweeps across the Kennicott Glacier in the Wrangell Mountains at Wrangell St. Elias National Park July 21, 2015 in Alaska. Neal Herbert/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericasthirteen547841
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Yogi Berra gets a standing ovation as he stands in uniform at home plate during the pregame events before the New York Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles in the final game ever at Yankee Stadium in New York City on September 21, 2008. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra played on 10 Yankees championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and the Mets to the World Series. Yogi Berra died Tuesday night. He was 90 years old. JOHN ANGELILLO/UPI/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: upiphotostwo405728
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France’s WESLEY FOFANA (R) scores their fourth try against Romania during their Rugby Union IRB Rugby World Cup 2015 Pool D match at Olympic Stadium, London, England. France beat Romania 38-11. Stefan Wermuth/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericasthirteen535628
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Australian cosplay enthusiast Sunni Daniele dressed up as his favourite character from either animation, comic or video game poses for a photograph during Oz Comic Con in Sydney, Australia, 27 September 2015. ‘Cosplay’ is a combination of the words ‘costume’ and ‘play’ where fans dress up as their favourite Japanese comic characters. DAN HIMBRECHTS/EPA/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: epalive843648
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A lone man visits the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. May,Miriam/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericasthirteen528242
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Italy’s coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue of 1,151 migrants in 11 separate operations off the Libyan coast in the last hours..File dated September 28, 2015. Ropi/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericasthirteen562180