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A Fulvous Owl, Strix fulvescens, roosts in a tree outside the fourth story of Building 5 along Massachusetts Ave. Tuesday afternoon.

Frank (played by Paul D. Welle ’11, left) and Poole (Jiho Lee ’08) plan the firing of a rocket in “Incendiary Evidence.” The play, written by Rony D. Kubat G and directed by Emilie Slaby, is about firing rockets and o...

A road crew lays down new asphalt over the crosswalk in front of 77 Massachusetts Ave. late Thursday night, the second of three nights scheduled for the road’s maintenance.

Freshman Cynthia P. Latortue ’12 takes a shot while AEPi brothers (from left) Adam Lerer ’09, David B. Stiebel ’09, Samuel A. Gross ’10, Joshua E. Siegel ’11, and Theodore A. Blackman ’10 cheer on at the AEPi games st...

Mysteriously uprighted rocks are seen at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park, Maine.

MIT students (left to right) YingHsuan Lin ’10, William B. Yee ’10, Cheuk L Leung ’10, Chun-Kai Wang ’12, Jia X. Wu ’10, and Yu-Ju Chiu ’11, posed in front of the “Lovers’ Bridge” this July in Taichung, Taiwan.

Alex H. Chan poses with a Chinese flag on the Great Wall in Beijing, China.

Balinese dive master Gede Sama holds up a sea cucumber while diving off the coast of Bali, Indonesia on June 9, 2008.

Spaniards celebrate the win of the European Cup in Puerta Jerez in Seville, Spain on June 29.

An origami butterfly, designed and built by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, is seen hanging on display August 8 in the Stata Center.

Grammy Award-winning Rascal Flatts play at the Hatch Shell during the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on July 4.

Friday’s fireworks display by Pyro Spectaculars Inc. is seen from the roof of the Green Building.

A video still shows lightning striking a crane at the Media Lab Extension construction site, as seen from Eastgate Apartments on June 27.

Crowds gather at the intersection of Causeway St. and Lomasney Way near TD Banknorth Garden where the Boston Celtics won the final game of the NBA Championship finals on June 17 by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92.

Fireworks are launched from the Charles River barge in front of the Boston skyline on July 4.

Workers of Pyro Spectaculars Inc. load fireworks shells into firing tubes on the Charles River barge on July 2.