[A model wearing one of Italian designer Giorgio Armani's metallic space-costumes for his Haute Couture Spring-Summer fashion collection. Image via AP]

[Designer Thom Browne showed off his Fall/Winter 2011 collection in Paris by staging a dinner. Image via AP]

[We're not sure exactly what this holiday display in central London is begging for, but at least someone is asking for something nice for Christmas politely. Image via Getty]

[This is the sun, as photographed in ultraviolet by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. That huge plasma loop in the lower left? It's a solar prominence, around 400,000 miles long. Video of it forming below.]

[The French are so ready for the holidays they've already lit the Christmas lights along the Champs Elysees in Paris. Photo via Getty]

[Wish you lived in this photo? This beach—perhaps not coincidentally—is called Orange Beach, and it's in Alabama. Was the sunset this nice where you were? Photo via AP.]

[Cranes flying south for the winter, at sunset in Germany. Photo via AP.]

[A couple huddles under an umbrella during a storm on the steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They might be kissing, but I'm hoping she's yelling at him for wearing a chain wallet. Pic via AP.]

[Scotland created a special tartan (plaid pattern) to commemorate the Pope's visit! Here, Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien and piper Louise Marshall Millington unveil the thing. Plans to specially deep-fry a Mars bar were scrapped. Pics via Getty. Click for close-ups.]

[Opponents of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in California, celebrate in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco shortly after receiving the news that a judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Image via AP]