Mahatma Gandhi statue in Chennai at sunset with dramatic sky (© cornfield/Shutterstock)

Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Queensland, Australia (© Coral Brunner/Shutterstock)

Young stars forming in the Tarantula Nebula, James Webb Space Telescope (© NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team)

Young stars forming in the Tarantula Nebula, James Webb Space Telescope (© NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team)

Gentoo penguins, Antarctica (© Art Wolfe/Getty Images)

Brown bears fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska (© oksana.perkins/Shutterstock)

Veined octopus in a giant clam shell, Sulawesi Sea, Indonesia (© Alex Mustard/Minden Pictures)

Gwalior fort in daytime. Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. (© Dmitry Rukhlenko-Photos of India/Alamy Stock Photo)

Fremont Indian petroglyphs, Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, Utah (© Dan Leeth/Alamy)

Mount Sopris, Colorado (© Jason Hatfield/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Old barn and canola field, Palouse region, Idaho (© Terry Eggers/Getty Images)

Vieste on the Gargano peninsula, Apulia, Italy (© Pilat666/Getty Images)

'Ring of fire' annular solar eclipse, Doha, Qatar (© Sorin Furcoi/Getty Images)

European hedgehog sheltering in tree bark, Sussex, England (© Jules Cox/Minden Pictures)

Ancient carved texts from Persepolis, Iran (© George Hall/Alamy)

Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak Island, Alaska (© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in Kumortuli, Kolkata, India. (© Rob Pinney/Alamy Stock Photo)

Pygmy three-toed sloth baby, Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama (© Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures)

View of Jaswant Thada and Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur city in Rajasthan, India. (© Twenty47studio/Getty images)

Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon (© Dan Mihai/Getty Images)

Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania (© Alex Potemkin/Getty Images)

Dussehra festival celebration in India (© im a photographer and an artist/Getty Images)

Cottonwood trees in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah (© Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures)

Autumn foliage in Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna, Austria (© rusm/Getty Images)

Sligachan Old Bridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland (© Aliaume Chapelle/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Windmills in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (© Getty Images)

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia (© Kelly vanDellen/Alamy)

Common raven sitting on a branch (© WildMedia/Shutterstock)

Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary (© ZGPhotography/Alamy)

Haut-Barr Castle, Alsace, France (© Andrea Pistolesi/Getty Images)