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Ebba Årsjö of Sweden poses for a portrait with her Paralympic gold and bronze medals after competing in the women’s para Alpine downhill, super-G, combined, and giant-slalom events on Day 9 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games on March 15, 2026.
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Gold medalists Joshua Sweeney, Oksana Masters, Sydney Peterson, Jake Adicoff, and Adicoff’s guide Reid Goble of Team USA pose for a photo on the podium during the medal ceremony for the para cross-country skiing mixed 4×2.5-kilometer relay on Day 8 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium.
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Audrey Pascual Seco of Team Spain crashes during run one of the para Alpine-skiing-women’s giant-slalom sitting on Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, on March 12, 2026. Pascual Seco, who has already won two gold medals and one silver earlier in these Paralympic games, was able to cross the finish line on her own.
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Noah Grove of Team USA skates with the puck during the para ice-hockey preliminary-round match between Team Germany and Team USA on Day 3 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.
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Oksana Masters of Team USA competes during the women’s para-biathlon individual sitting on Day 2 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on March 8, 2026.
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Jesper Pedersen of Team Norway makes a run in the para-alpine-skiing men’s-downhill sitting final on Day 1 of the 2026 Winter Paralympics at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Belluno, Italy.
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Dancers perform during the opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, in Verona, Italy, on March 6, 2026. The Paralympic Games will take place through Sunday, March 15.
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A Ukrainian honor guard stands while a symbolic illumination entitled “Rays of Memory” is projected over the graves of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war with Russia, at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, on February 23, 2026.Gleb Garanich / Reuters
A drone hits an apartment building during a Russian missile and drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 27, 2025.
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A digital composite image of the women’s snowboard halfpipe final, combining many runs made on Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Snow Park on February 12, 2026.Ryan Pierse / Getty
An infrared camera, combined with an in-camera filter, was used to create this image of Yuanmeng Chu of Team China during the women’s 15km individual at Anterselva Biathlon Arena on February 11, 2026, in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy.
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Youri Duplessis-Kergomard of Team France leads Oliver Davies of Team Great Britain, Terence Tchiknavorian of Team France, and Melvin Tchiknavorian of Team France in the men’s ski cross 1/8 finals on Day 15 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games, at Livigno Air Park, on February 21, 2026.
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Benjamin Lynch of Team Ireland competes in the first run of the men’s freeski halfpipe final on Day 14 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Snow Park on February 20, 2026.
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Mikaela Shiffrin of Team USA celebrates her gold-medal win in women’s slalom on Day 12 of the Winter Olympics at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, on February 18, 2026. On her final opportunity to medal in this Olympics, Shiffrin won by a margin of 1.5 seconds, following numerous disappointments in previous Olympics.
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Lea Sophie Scholz, Josephine Schlörb, and Josie Hofmann of Germany race during the Women’s Team Pursuit Final C against Belgium at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium on February 17, 2026.
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Domen Prevc of Team Slovenia jumps through a snow squall during the Men’s super-team final round on day 10 of the Winter Olympics at Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium on February 16, 2026.
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Vanessa Voigt of Team Germany lines up alongside competitors in the women’s biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit, shooting at targets on Day 9 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games at Anterselva Biathlon Arena, on February 15, 2026.
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Brazil’s gold medalist Lucas Pinheiro Braathen jumps onto the podium, flanked by Switzerland’s silver medalist Marco Odermatt (left), and Switzerland’s bronze medalist Loïc Meillard, during the medal ceremony for the men’s giant slalom alpine skiing event at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, on February 14, 2026.
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Spectators watch and take videos as Yuto Totsuka of Team Japan competes in the third run of the men’s snowboard halfpipe final on Day 7 of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park, on February 13, 2026.
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Austin Florian of Team USA begins a run at a skeleton men’s training session at Cortina Sliding Center, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, on February 11, 2026, during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Skeleton athletes, wearing spiked shoes, sprint for up to 100 feet at the beginning of a race, propelling themselves into a slide that can reach speeds of more than 90 miles per hour.
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Corinne Stoddard of Team USA, Rika Kanai of Team Japan, and Arianna Sighel of Team Italy crash as Team China’s Wang Xinran crosses the finish line to win heat three in the women’s short-track speed-skating 500m on day four of the Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena, February 10, 2026.
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Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland, wearing a Swiss flag as a cape, celebrates winning the gold medal in the women’s freeski slopestyle competition on Day 3 of the 2026 Winter Olympics at Livigno Snow Park, on February 9, 2026.
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Pomagagnon, a mountain in the Dolomites, towers above Cortina d’Ampezzo, and the Cortina Sliding Center below, where Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller competes in a men’s singles luge run during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, on February 8, 2026.
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A camera drone follows close behind Barnabas Szollos of Team Israel, as he hurtles down the course during the men’s downhill at Stelvio Alpine Skiing Center in Bormio, Italy, on February 7, 2026, on day one of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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The torchbearers Deborah Compagnoni and Alberto Tomba light one of two Olympic cauldrons during the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics at Piazza Dibona in Milan, Italy, today. The Olympic flame, carried through all 110 provinces in Italy over the past 63 days, has reached its final destinations: a pair of identical cauldrons in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
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Frost-covered conifers called “snow monsters,” or juhyo in Japanese, are illuminated by spotlights that sit on a slope of Mount Zao on the night of February 8, 2022, in Yamagata prefecture, Tohoku region, Japan.WhitcombeRD / Getty
Frozen “snow monsters” stand on a mountain slope in Japan.Carl Court / Getty
Strangely shaped snow-covered trees, nicknamed “snow monsters,” are silhouetted by the setting sun at the summit of Mount Zao on January 19, 2019.
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Venezuelans living in Chile celebrate in Santiago on January 3, 2026, after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.Natacha Pisarenko / AP
In Argentina, Venezuelans celebrate the capture of Maduro, gathering at the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on January 3, 2026.Natacha Pisarenko / AP
Venezuelans celebrate at the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on January 3, 2026.Pablo Sanhueza / Reuters
In Santiago, Chile, a woman celebrates the announcement that the U.S.
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People watch as Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupts on May 11, 2025.Gary Miller / Getty
A closer view of Kīlauea volcano erupting in Hawaii on May 11, 2025Arnold Welianto / AFP / Getty
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts, pictured from Pululera village, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on August 18, 2025.AFP / Getty
A villager watches the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki from Talibura village in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on June 17, 2025.
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Day 25 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Dusty Pillars. This is the James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation, trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, about 7,000 light-years away. The mid-infrared view allows scientists to focus on the dense dust in the star-forming regions within these massive pillars.
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Day 24 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Gravitational Lens. Galaxies in this James Webb Space Telescope image appear to be stretched into arcs and lines, their appearance warped and magnified by powerful gravitational lensing in Galaxy Cluster Abell S1063, which bends the light of more distant galaxies as it passes through on its way to Earth.
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Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Warped Space. This Hubble view of Galaxy Cluster Abell 209, about 2.8 billion light-years away, shows more than 100 galaxies. The incredible mass of the galaxies together warps and magnifies images of background galaxies and stars in a process called gravitational lensing, which can be seen in the stretched and smeared clumps toward the center of the image.
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Day 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs. The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a region at the edge of a gigantic gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324. The cluster, about 9,100 light-years away, near the Carina Nebula, is believed to be fairly young, only about 12 million years old.
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