Images Dated 19th March 2010

AP McCoy on Denman jumps the final fence of the 2010 Gold Cup

Horse Racing
Cheltenham Festival 2010 Day 4, Cheltenham Racecourse
19/03/2010. Credit: Dan Rowley/Colorsport
The Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeple Chase
Denman ridden by A P McCoy clears the final fence on the way to second place

© Dan Rowley/Colorsport

Tony Mccoy

Overlapping galaxies, HST image

Overlapping galaxies. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the overlapping galaxies known as 2MASX J00 The two objects are both spiral galaxies, with the outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy (upper right) silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy (centre left). Dust lanes in the smaller galaxy are seen in front of the larger one. 2MASX J00 is located in the constellation of Sculptor and is around 780 million light years from Earth. The area seen here is around 180, 000 light years across. This image was obtained in 2006, using HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)

© NASA/ESA/STSCI/HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

To match Reuters Life! JAPAN-CHERRYBLOSSOMS/

Blooming "Ookanzakura" cherry blossoms are pictured at Shinjuku park in Tokyo March 18, 2010. This season, Japan's national obsession with the timing of the flowering of the delicate, pale pink blooms, called "sakura" in Japanese, will depend on private weather companies and their volunteer recruits, after the Meteorological Agency decided to end its official forecasts that began in 1955. To match Reuters Life! JAPAN-CHERRYBLOSSOMS/ Picture taken March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E63J11D901