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An amazing photograph of red sprites above a thundercloud

A stunning view of the Milky Way

A rare natural phenomenon in Norway known as ‘ice flowers’

The Sun, photographed by an amateur astrophotographer, and the Earth for scale

The giant sequoias in a national park in California

The Anji River Grand Canyon in China

"The Seahorse" under the Northern Lights in Arizona

Testing of the Aeon R engine

The Triangulum Galaxy is our second-closest galactic neighbour

The collapse of part of the rim of the Fagradalsfjall crater in 2021

A starry summer night in Greece

An epic view of the Falcon 9 launch from an aeroplane

The Martian impact crater Halle

This NASA visualisation shows 22 X-ray binary systems containing confirmed black holes They are all shown to scale, and their orbital motion has been sped up by a factor of approximately 22,000

The "Blood Falls" is one of Antarctica’s most unusual phenomena The colour is caused by iron-rich salt water that has been trapped beneath the glacier for millions of years, before bursting to the surface and oxidising on contact with oxygen

These four points around the central one are four images of the same quasar, distorted by gravitational lensing from the galaxy at the centre The quasar is 8 billion light-years away, whilst the lensing galaxy is 400 million light-years from Earth

A self-portrait of an astrophotographer beneath the Milky Way

The collision between the hypothetical Theia and Earth that created the Moon It is believed that the Moon was formed during a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia. Debris from this impact gathered into an orbit around Earth, eventually forming our satellite

A lunar halo in Italy above Mount Paterno

The eruption of the Villarrica volcano during a storm