A rare lunar eclipse, bloco parties in Rio, artwork as a memorial to deaths by overdose, Amazon’s new spheres in Seattle, snowy Shanghai, the Black Panther premiere, floating faces based on Chelsea Manning’s DNA data, the State of the Union, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Super Blue Blood Moon, Starry Night, Stratofortress
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A man wears a mask among fellow supporters as Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (not pictured) takes a symbolic presidential oath of office in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 30, 2018. #
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The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette (just right of center) as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second on January 30, 2018, viewed from Alexandria, Virginia. Onboard are NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, and Scott Tingle, Russian Cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov, and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai. #
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The Super Blue Blood Moon rises over the horizon above the head of a Chinese dragon statue at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok on January 31, 2018. Skywatchers watched for a rare lunar eclipse that combined three unusual events—a blue moon, a super moon, and a total eclipse. #
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People stand in front of The Starry Night at the exhibition "Van Gogh Alive - The Experience," about the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh from 1880 until 1890 in Seville, Spain, on February 2, 2018. Photographs and videos combined with a unique system that incorporates over 50 high-definition projectors, graphics, and multi-channel surround sound to create multi-screen environments showing the art of Vincent Van Gogh. #
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Janine Fisher of Pittsburgh looks at an art installation called Prescribed to Death Memorial at the William Pitt Union at the University of Pittsburgh on January 31, 2018. The installation features 22,000 carved medicine pills that together represent the face of someone who fatally overdosed in 2015. A creation of the Illinois-based National Safety Council, the memorial is making its inaugural stop in Pittsburgh through Friday. #
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Visitors walk through the "Proryv" (Breakthrough) Panorama Museum in Kirovsky District, 40 kilometers from Saint Petersburg, Russia, on January 27, 2018. Russia marked the 74th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg) from the Nazi military blockade during World War II on January 27. #
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A reveler smiles during the Banda de Ipanema carnival "bloco" parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 27, 2018. Merrymakers take to the streets in hundreds of open-air bloco parties ahead of Rio's over-the-top Carnival, the highlight of the year for many. #
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Honoree Stevie Nicks of music group Fleetwood Mac performs onstage during MusiCares Person of the Year, honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall on January 26, 2018, in New York City. #
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A B-52H Stratofortress flies over Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on January 30, 2018. This bomber, along with three others, recently deployed to Europe to exercise a state of readiness at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom. #
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Boats are grounded during an extreme low tide in a canal in Venice, Italy, on January 30, 2018. The exceptional low tide affected Venice, creating problems in transport and navigation. #
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Ballet shoes hang from a rope as part of a protest against the recent decision to reduce funding to the state-run dance company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 1, 2018. About 80 dancers, choreographers, and other workers at the National Ballet of the Dance lost their jobs in December as part of a series of government austerity measures. #
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Princess Leonor of Spain receives one of Spain's highest honors, the Order of Golden Fleece (Toison de Oro), from her father King Felipe VI of Spain at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, on January 30, 2018. #
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President Donald Trump walks into the House Chamber as he arrives for his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on January 30, 2018. #
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Visitors look at 3D-printed faces of what someone with Chelsea Manning's DNA could potentially look like in the installation A Becoming Resemblance by American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg at the annual Transmediale art and digital culture show in Berlin, Germany, on January 31, 2018. The thirty masks are derived from Chelsea Manning's DNA, smuggled out of prison when Manning, then Bradley, was serving time for passing classified information to WikiLeaks. #
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DACA recipient Javier Hernandez Kistte, 27, poses for a portrait outside his home in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2018. Hernandez Kistte is a UC Irvine graduate who now works for a visual effects company. He came to the U.S. from Mexico City when he was eight years old. Hernandez Kistte said that DACA allowed him and his brother to finish their degrees by allowing them to work to pay for tuition. "My parents are still undocumented and as a family we struggle with the anxiety that it's possible for them to get deported at any moment. That anxiety has now risen with the uncertainty that me and my brother might return to having an undocumented status ... It's not only about us. I've heard of people who are willing to negotiate terms that will give us the right to be here, give us DACA, but will make life a living nightmare for other people and I don't want that," he said. #
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Homeless encampment resident Tammy Schuler walks her dogs beside a row of tents and tarps that line the Santa Ana River bicycle path, near Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, on January 25, 2018. People living along the riverbed recently learned they must pack their bags and move on, or risk arrest, but alternative housing options are limited. Urban development network CityNet says it has helped some 200 people get off the street since July—but the steady stream of new homeless people is relentless. #
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Workers roll out a red carpet for Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, to walk down on their arrival at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo, Norway, on February 1, 2018. #
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Devotees offer prayers by rolling down a cloth near the bank of the Hanumante River during the final day of the month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on January 31, 2018. #
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Randall Margraves (left), the father of three daughters who were abused by Larry Nassar, lunges at Nassar (wearing orange) a former Team USA gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges, during victim statements of his sentencing in the Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Michigan, on February 2, 2018. Margraves was restrained, never reaching Nassar. He later apologized to the court, and was released by the judge without punishment "due to the circumstances" of the case. #
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Abu Rabih, 65, picks his way through rubble with his eight-year-old grandson, Yahya, following airstrikes by regime forces which hit the building where they live in Arbin, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on February 1, 2018. #
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A child wearing a Black Panther costume looks up at actor Chadwick Boseman, who portrays the superhero Black Panther, as he autographs a poster at the Los Angeles World Premiere of Marvel Studios's Black Panther at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on January 29, 2018. #
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