A green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago and is expected to be most visible to stargazers this week, is seen tens of millions of miles away from Earth in this telescope image made in January 2023. #

A participant with a demon mask brandishes a stick with fireworks among revelers during the traditional Correfoc ("fire-run") festival in Palma de Mallorca on January 29, 2023. #

Dancers, known as Kukeri, perform in costume during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, near Sofia, Bulgaria, on January 28, 2023. The three-day festival, which started on January 27, has participants wear multicolored masks, covered with beads, ribbons, and woolen tassels while the main dancer, laden with bells to drive away sickness and evil spirits, sways like a stalk of wheat heavy with grain. #

Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken of Germany celebrate winning the gold medal during the Men's Doubles Run 2 during day two of the FIL Luge World Championships in Oberhof, Germany, on January 28, 2023. #

Fallen trees obstruct vehicles after ice storms and freezing rain in the south of Texas left thousands of people without power and turned roadways into ice rinks during an extreme cold snap in San Antonio, Texas, on February 2, 2023. #

An aerial view of the Mucajaí River, in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, state of Roraima, Brazil, on January 28, 2023. Cases of malnutrition and malaria in the region have skyrocketed in recent weeks, prompting the new leftist government of President Lula Inacio Lula da Silva to declare a health emergency. #

A child leaps from a boat as fishermen return to shore after checking their crab and lobster pots in the evening sunshine off Chesil Beach, on January 27, 2023, on England's Isle of Portland. #

On January 30, 2023, an artist uses a paintbrush to work on figures depicting Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, during preparations of floats for the upcoming Nice Carnival, in France. #

A teacher holds a placard while taking part in a protest organized by the National Education Union and other affiliated trade unions in St. Peter's Square, in Manchester, England, on February 1, 2023. Children missed school and commuters faced severe disruption in the U.K. as half a million workers staged walkouts calling for higher wages in the largest such strikes in more than a decade. #

Oleksiy Storozh (right), carries a cross to be placed at the grave of his late best friend, a Ukrainian serviceman killed in action in Bakhmut. Friends carry the coffin of 28-year-old Oleksandr Korovniy to a cemetery in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on January 30, 2023. #

A rose is placed on a memorial stele at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, in Berlin, Germany, on January 27, 2023, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. #

A view of the installation titled "Ora tocca a voi," by French artist JR, in Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy on January 30, 2023. The installation depicts the faces of elderly guests from 40 Italian retirement homes, created in the second half of 2022 by students of the Brera Academy. #

Hindu devotees listen to a religious leader at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati Rivers, during the annual traditional Magh Mela festival, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on January 31, 2023. #

France's Arthur Guerin-Boeri, five-time freediving world champion, warms up prior to diving to spot orcas in a channel off northern Norway's Spildra Island, on January 25, 2023. #

People walk by a formerly sunken boat left standing upright, with its stern buried in the mud, along the shoreline of Lake Mead in Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nevada, on January 27, 2023. #

A person holds a small dog during an event organized by the Zlombol group, to help raise funds for the 31st edition of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, at Podgorski Market Square, in Krakow, Poland, on January 29, 2023. #

Rob Kenney hikes on Wildcat Mountain above clouds in a valley, with Mount Adams in the background, in New Hampshire, on January 30, 2023. Kenney and a friend were making an overnight hike as part of a long-term quest to hike the state's 48 4,000-foot mountains. #

Pairs' European Champions Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii of Italy perform during the Exhibition Gala of the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, Finland, on January 29, 2023. #