December time means a number of things, not least of which is a list of lists sweeping the internet. The year’s best, the year’s worst, you get the drift – so to save you the time of sifting through them yourselves we’ve handpicked a few beauts from 2015 courtesy of CNN.

Below are six of the year’s most memorable shots.

NASA released this picture of the Pillars of Creation in January, which are giant columns of cold gas in the Eagle Nebula region.

Chill, that below is an animatronic polar bear visiting London’s Underground to promote a Sky TV drama.

Children in Gaza play alongside a Banksy mural on a house destroyed during a fight between Israel and Hamas.

Emmanuel Sithole guys, need we say more?

On a more positive note here’s the White House lit up in honour of the Supreme Court’s ruling to legalise same-sex marriage in the US.

To end on a chuckle here’s Sweepee Rambo, the runner-up in this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog competition. Sometimes we do remember who comes in second then…

To see CNN’s full list of 164 photos click HERE.

[source:cnn]