Enceladus vents water into space from its south polar region. The moon is lit by the Sun on the left, and backlit by the vast reflecting surface of its parent planet to the right. Icy crystals from these plumes are likely the source of Saturn’s nebulous E ring, within which Enceladus orbits. (photo:NASA / JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures)

Multimedia artist Michael Benson begins with filtered, black-and-white imagery sent back by space probes at the edge of existence. He ends with colorful, high-definition visions of a universe in motion.

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Sept. 1, 2012. A villager offers flowers to a female adult elephant lying dead on a paddy field in Panbari village, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Gauhati, India. (Photo: Anupam Nath—AP)

From an eruption on the sun and the death of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in South Korea to Redhead Day in the Netherlands and students heading back to school around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.

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Aug. 26 , 2012. Visitors of Holi Open Air throw colored powder in Dresden, Germany. (Arno Burgi—DPA/Landov)

From Hurricane Isaac in the Caribbean and colorful Holi celebrations in Germany to the Paralympics in London and a tree full of goats in Morocco, TIME presents the best images of the week.

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Matthias Heiderich is a self-taught photographer currently working in Berlin, Germany. His images transform buildings and reconstruct to the world into an abstract canvas of lines, patters, and vibrant colors. Heiderich is having his first US solo show at Carte Blanche in San Francisco. The show is up from July 19- September 13th.
 
Head over to Mathias Heiderich’s website for more photos. Or to the Carte Blanche website for more information about the show.

June 9, 2012. A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon, southern Lebanon. The dump, located near schools, hospitals and apartment blocks in Lebanon’s third biggest city, has partially collapsed into the Mediterranean sea several times. (Ali Hashisho—Reuters)

From sectarian violence in Myanmar and wildfires in Colorado to protests in Egypt and the Euro 2012 soccer championships in Poland and Ukraine, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

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Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton, who recently won the photography prize at the 2012 Hyères Festival, uses her camera to create color invisible to the naked eye. Learn more about how she does it—and why—here.

Burnt. From the series SOUP.

Ingredients: plastic debris that includes surface text.

In her photo exhibition Soup, the British photographer Mandy Barker documents plastic debris that’s been salvaged from the sea, transforming marine detritus into the stuff of art. See more here.

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March 28, 2012. Chicks, dyed with artificial colors, are sold at a street market in Beirut to celebrate the Christian occasion of Easter.

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