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snapper spawn

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Mass of spawning fish make a milky way on a coral reef

When photographer Tony Wu went to Palau to watch red snapper spawn he discovered why so few photos of the spectacle exist

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teardrops

Life

Crystallised tears form beautiful patterns unique as snowflakes

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glass mountain

Earth

Giant mountains of green glass prepare to face the heat

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salt

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India’s salt harvesters toil for crystals under the baking sun

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Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

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Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

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Dramatic landscape shaped by Iceland's devastating eruption

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Dramatic landscape shaped by Iceland's devastating eruption

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Space

Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

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Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

Space

Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

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Night-time mouse ninjas caught in mid-air fight for food

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Night-time mouse ninjas caught in mid-air fight for food

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Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

This mosaic of scarlet, beige and grey looks like a detail from a Klimt painting, but zoom closer and it's a view of fields, mountains – and a space centre

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Life

Deep-sea creatures float through black water at night

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Technology

Soviet-era bootleg music recorded on discarded X-ray plates

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Space

LISA Pathfinder spacecraft ready for lift-off

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Life

Here's my nuptial gift, a dead planthopper – now can we mate?

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