Wikimedia Commons: Winners of Picture of the Year 2025

First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area.

Attribution: WAFA

Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.

Attribution: Giles Laurent

Third place: A gigantic jet [a kind of upper-atmospheric lightning] photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers.

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