Pictures of the week: 31 Aug. - 7 Sept.

Aug. 31, 2012. A long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space.

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.

Sept. 3, 2012. Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere.

Sept. 5, 2012. A view of a Mother Teresa statue holding a child, seen through rain covered glass on the occasion of her 15th anniversary of her death, in Calcutta, India.

Sept. 3, 2012. China's Juan Yao competes before wining the women's shot put F42/44 final at the 2012 Paralympics in London.

Sept. 3, 2012. A Kashmiri boy dives on a summer day in Srinagar, India.

Sept. 4, 2012. A helicopter drops water over a forest fire in Alvaiazere, Portugal.

Sept. 1, 2012. A dancer of acclaimed Argentinian group Fuerzabruta performs in a piece entitled 'Mylar', while being suspended on a translucent 15m pool during Singapore's 5th annual Night Festival.

Original article: TIME lightbox