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Solar eclipse

The moon slides across the sun, showing a blazing halo of light, during an annular eclipse at a waterfront park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Monday, May 21, 2012. Millions of Asians watched as a rare ring of fire eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent.

An annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun, was widely visible in Asia before moving across the Pacific to be seen in parts of the western United States Sunday May 20, 2012.

After a record snowfall, spring comes to Alaska

A moose browses at the top of a bluff near the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Kincaid Park on Wednesday evening, May 9, 2012.

After the snow spring arrives.

The Melting Snow Uncovers a Winters Worth of Trash

A life jacket and other trash on the melting surface of Jewel Lake on Thursday, April 26, 2012.

Melting snow revels winters trash.

Birds of Spring 2012

Snow geese land on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. Snow geese migrate toward the Beaufort Sea coastal region in northern Alaska and Canada in spring. (Photo / Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News)

Resident and migratory birds are busy feeding, courting and preparing for nesting as spring arrives at thawing Westchester Lagoon, the Cook Inlet shoreline and other ponds and lakes around Anchorage.

Breakup 2012

Anchorage street maintenance worker Martin Arias uses steam to thaw a frozen storm system at the corner of Scenic View Drive and Tudor Road in Muldoon on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012. Sunshine and warm temperatures during the day, combined will below freezing temperatures at night, have contributed to a milder breakup that anticipated following Anchorage's record breaking snowfall.

Following the snowiest winter on record, Anchorage transitions to a breakup tempered by sunshine and snow evaporation.

PHOTO GALLERY

Falkland Islands

Great Gray Owl

A great gray owl at Lake Hood Sea Plane Base.

PHOTO GALLERY

Aurora Borealis

Begich Wind Turbine

A screw lift begins to slowly elevate the wind turbine Monday Feb. 27, 2012 at Begich Middle School.

A 70-foot wind turbine is raised into position Monday Feb. 27, 2012 at Begich Middle School.

Poker Flat Rocket Launch

An all-sky image during the rocket launch was taken by an automated camera near the entrance gate of the Poker Flat Research Range Saturday Feb. 18, 2012.

A research rocket was launched late Saturday Feb. 18, 2012 outside Fairbanks.

Reader-submitted

Alaska cabins

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

Post your cabin photo

Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

Share your biking photos

READER-SUBMITTED

Alaska birds

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

Submit your RSVP photo

Reader-submitted: Alaska Gardens 2012

Location: 05/21/2012, Indian The beginning of summer!

Alaska-themed Tattoos

Reader submitted: Mom and me

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad

Alaska Spring 2012:Reader-submitted

Snowmachines

2012 Bear sightings: Reader-submitted

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

RSVP: April 2012

RSVP March 2012

Reader submitted: 2012 Iditarod

Reader submitted: Fur Rondy 2012

Moose sightings

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

2011/12 Alaska winter

RSVP: February 2012

RSVP: January - 2012

Cordova snowstorm

January Valdez snowstorm

Frosty Alaskans

Slideshows

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite