Contrails from a 2007 Atlantis shuttle liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (© TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Ouzel Lake in North Cascades National Park, Washington state (© Ethan Welty)(Bing United States)

Monarch butterflies in Michoacán, Mexico (© Alejandro Prieto/Minden Pictures)(Bing United States)

Close-up of a storm on Jupiter from the Juno space probe (© NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran)(Bing United States)

For Smile Day, a common octopus (© blickwinkel/Alamy)(Bing United States)

Apple tree on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada (© Radius Images/Offset)(Bing United States)

Performers at the 26th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain (© Xinhua/Pau Barrena/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta runs until October 14 (© Blaine Harrington III/Alamy)(Bing United States)

Hubble Space Telescope’s view of Saturn (© NASA)(Bing United States)

Schoolgirls in Fort Kochi, Kerala, India (© imageBROKER/Alamy)(Bing United States)

Replica of Lascaux cave paintings at the International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France (© Caroline Blumberg/Epa/Shutterstock)(Bing United States)

The Bode Museum during the Festival of Lights (© fhm/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Dawn redwoods in a lake at Zimaling Park, Zhongshan, China (© Yaorusheng/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

An oxpecker sits on an African buffalo in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (© Susan Portnoy/Offset)(Bing United States)

Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic Period found near Tuba City, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation (© wanderluster/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Icebergs in Mendenhall Lake near Juneau, Alaska (© John Hyde/age fotostock)(Bing United States)

Portland, Maine (© CFW Photography/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Valletta, Malta, one of Europe’s Capitals of Culture for 2018 (© Adrian Malanca/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Studio Festi performs during Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico (© Hector Vivas/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

A common wombat at Point Lesueur on Maria Island in Tasmania, Australia (© Posnov/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Liquid nitrogen for National Chemistry Week, which runs October 21-27 (© Sunny/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Art installation above the Piazza del Duomo in Amalfi, Italy (© LatitudeStock – TTL/Getty Images)(Bing United States)

Château Gaillard, a 12th-century fortress in the Seine Valley, France (© Francis Cormon/age fotostock)(Bing United States)

Tombstone, Arizona, on the anniversary of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (© Nik Wheeler/Alamy)(Bing United States)

A corn maze in Petaluma, California (© Gallery Stock)(Bing United States)

A statue in the Gardens of Versailles in France (© Lindsay Daniels/Tandem Stills + Motion)(Bing United States)

A pumpkin patch in Columbia County, Pennsylvania (© Beck Photography/Aurora Photos)(Bing United States)

Common pipistrelle bat for Bat Appreciation Month (© Mario Cea Sanchez/Minden Pictures)(Bing United States)

Theatre of Lost Souls (© Getty | Shutterstock)(Bing United States)