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NASA’s top space photos of 2017

2017 was a year of groundbreaking discoveries and record-setting exploration at NASA. The moon became a focal point for the agency. NASA gave us unique coverage of the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. in 99 years, announced the most Earth-size planets ever found in the habitable zone of a star outside our solar system, and more. Here are photos of the year’s highlights in the solar system and beyond. (NASA)

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Photos from top: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope/Handout via Reuters, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, NASA/Handout via Reuters, NASA/Desiree Stover, NASA/SwRI.Amir Caspi/Dan Seaton, NASA/Bill Ingalls (2), NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran/Handout via Reuters, NASA/ESA/Handout via Reuters

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2017 Year in Pictures: News

Conflict, politics, jubilation, tragedy and a look at the brave and the bold are among our selections for the year in pictures for 2017 from Associated Press, Reuters News Agency, Agence-France Presse and Getty Images.

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When the world looks back on 2017, what will it see? From space, the swirling clouds of a hurricane almost as big as the Gulf of Mexico. From the air, scorched earth where neighborhoods once thrived – destroyed from massive wildfires in California. On the ground, the brown waters lapping the suburban cul-de-sacs of southern Texas, green forests uprooted in the mountains of Puerto Rico. And on the screens of our televisions and phones, the displaced refugees of Myanmar, the starving children of Yemen, the angry demonstrators of the Middle East, the defiant marchers of Charlottesville, the accusing faces of women and the abject ones of men. And the inescapable, unforgettable visage of Donald Trump, grinning in triumph, sneering in contempt, or simply walking outside beneath the world’s most famous thatch of hair, streaming and flapping in the wind.  – Jerry Adler

Photos from top: Patrick Semansky/AP, Emilio Morenatti/AP, Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images, David J. Phillip/AP, Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, Paula Bronstein/Getty Images, Paul Sancya/AP, vid Becker/Getty Images

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#5 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: Dramatic aerial views of the flooding in Harvey’s aftermath

(Originally posted on August 30, 2017)

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Neighborhood after neighborhood underwater. Submerged highways. The cities of coastal Texas in crisis. The destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, downgraded to a still deadly tropical storm, can be seen in these aerial photos of the floodwaters as the historic storm continues to pour a torrent of rain down on reeling communities.

Photos from top: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (2), David J. Phillip/AP,  Gerald Herbert/AP, Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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#4 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: Hurricane Harvey lashes Texas

(Originally posted on September 2, 2017)

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One week after Harvey slammed into southeast Texas as a Category Four hurricane, rescuers were still searching by air and by boat for people trapped in flooded homes.

A fresh blaze broke out late Friday at a chemical plant in Crosby, northeast of Houston, sending a giant plume of thick black smoke billowing into the sky.

And as floodwaters receded in Houston, the fourth most populous city in the United States, nearby cities such as Beaumont — which had lost its water supply — and Port Arthur struggled to recover. (AFP)

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Photos from top: Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP, Gerald Herbert/AP, Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Trudy Lampson via AP, Adrees Latif/Reuters, Joe Raedle/Getty Images, Rick Wilking/Reuters, Adrees Latif/Reuters

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#8 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: 9/11: Then and now — 16 years later

(Originally posted on September 11, 2017)

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Yahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan recently returned to the scenes of many memorable images taken in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Donovan photographed the same areas to show what has changed since the terrorist attacks 16 years ago.

New obstacles have arisen, requiring some adjustments in camera angles to align with the original images. This is the sixth time Donovan has revisited the New York skyline; each year presents new challenges as the New York City landscape changes. (Yahoo News)

Photos from top left: Marty Lederhandler/AP, Suzanne Plunkett/AP,  Mark Lennihan/AP, Amy Sancetta/AP, Alexandre Fuchs/AP; right: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News (Gif); left: Henny Ray Abrams/AFP/Getty Images,  Gulnara Samoilova/AP, Mark Lennihan/AP,  Shawn Baldwin/AP, Stephen Chernin/AP; right: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News

#9 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: Discarded protest signs from the Women’s March in NYC

(Originally posted on January 22, 2017)

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Following the march in New York City, protesters left behind thousands of signs around Fifth Avenue near Trump Tower. Many signs left near a construction site were taken home by admirers as souvenirs. One group of placards was made into an art installation on East 57th Street, while many of these great signs were discarded near receptacles along Fifth Avenue waiting for sanitation. (Yahoo News)

Photography by Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News

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#10 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

(Originally posted on October 12, 2017)

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One man climbs 24 flights of stairs several times a day alongside dormant elevators. Street vendors hawk plastic washboards for $20. And families outstretch their hands as crews in helicopters drop supplies in communities that remain isolated.

This is life one month after Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm that killed at least 48 people, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and left tens of thousands of people without a job. It was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in nearly a century, with winds just shy of Category 5 force. (AP)

Photos from top: Mario Tama/Getty Images, Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, Mario Tama/Getty Images, Carlos Giusti/AP, Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, Ramon Espinosa/AP, Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images, Ramon Espinosa/AP

#3 of 10 Most Popular News Galleries of 2017: Scenes from Las Vegas mass shooting

(Originally posted on October 2, 2017)

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A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas casino unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing 58 people and injuring 489 others — as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

SWAT teams using explosives stormed the gunman’s hotel room and found he had killed himself, authorities said. He had as many as 10 guns with him, including rifles, they said.

There was no immediate word on the motive for the bloodbath.

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said authorities believe it was a “lone wolf” attack. And the U.S. Homeland Security Department said there was no “specific credible threat” involving other public venues in the U.S.

Country music star Jason Aldean was performing Sunday night at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival in front of a crowd of more than 22,000 when the gunman opened fire from inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across the street.

The gunman was identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada. He had checked into the hotel room on Thursday, authorities said. (AP)

Photos form top: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images, David Becker/Getty Images (4), John Locher/AP, David Becker/Getty Images, John Locher/AP

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– A surreal scene as Las Vegas returns to business after Sunday massacre – Portrait of a mass killer: The details don’t add up – Las Vegas, a ‘soft target,’ long feared an attack – Now I Get It: Why haven’t authorities named Las Vegas gunman a terrorist? – Photos: The front page: How newspapers portrayed the Vegas massacre – Photos: Makeshift memorials pay tribute to Las Vegas shooting victims

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