April 20, 2023

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, explodes after its launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on a brief unpiloted test flight near Brownsville, Texas. 

Shiites observe the crescent moon to decide the start of the 10th Islamic month of Shawwal, which marks the end of a month-long fasting of Ramadan and the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr festival in Najaf, Iraq.

A total solar eclipse is seen in Exmouth, Western Australia.

People are seen at the toll plaza of Padma Bridge as they leave Dhaka to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at home with family, in Munshiganj, Bangladesh.

A SWAT officer fires tear gas towards the demonstrators as they attend a protest held after a grand jury voted against indicting police officers in the fatal shooting of unarmed Black man Jayland Walker, in Akron, Ohio, April 19, 2023. 

A man attaches the name tag of a worshiper in preparation for upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 27 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea.

Dancers stretch ahead of auditions for a spot on the Rockettes line for the "2023 Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

A French municipal police officer walks past a beached rorqual Minke whale washed up on the shores of Saint-Valery en Caux, Normandy region, northern France.

Devotees take a holy bath at Matathirtha to honor their departed mothers during Mother's Day in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Swallows sit on electrical power lines at sunset in Eldorado dos Carajas, Para state, Brazil, April 19, 2023.