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Rhiannon Adam, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

Space

Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists

This photograph of a Soyuz rocket bathed in mist was selected as a finalist for the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 competition

G0T7G0 Milky Way streaks across the sky at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire with the iconic Church Rock out to sea. Also pictured is Saturn

Space

How to tell a planet from a star 鈥� and one planet from another

Close-up of construction bubble level.

What does the angle of a spirit level mean relative to Earth?

Coronal mass ejection 05/11/2018 3372 views 12 likes 402495 ID Like Download COOKIES To enable the sharing functionality, please accept all cookies. To adjust your cookie settings, click here. Details Related This image, acquired by the LASCO C2 coronagraph instrument on the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft, was taken 8 January 2002 and shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour. This C2 image was turned 90 degrees so that the blast seems to be pointing down. A second image, from the EIT disk imager on a different day was enlarged and superimposed on the C2 image so that it filled the occulting disk for effect. CREDIT ESA/NASA/Soho

Would a powerful solar storm knock out electronics in planes?

2FWP497 Liquid iron molten metal pouring from ladle container into mold, industrial metallurgical factory, foundry cast, heavy industry background.

Is it possible to have a high-tech society without iron? Part 2

This week鈥檚 new questions

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快猫短视频s want to poke me where, with a what?

Tom Gauld on hazardous science

Twisteddoodles on the evolution of cars

Smiling-Damselfly-?Benjamin_Salb This is a stacked image of a damselfly I encountered on an early morning macro outing this spring. The expression of the damselfly is remarkable, and the large pseudopupil area gives it an almost cartoonish quality. This is my favorite damselfly capture to date.

Life

Incredible close-up images of insects scoop photo contest honours

A 鈥渟miling鈥� damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entomological Society鈥檚 2024 Photography Competition

Mind

Struggling with envy? Here are some science-backed ways to help

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How a theory about maleness could explain the state of the world

Does life require Earth鈥檚 rate of rotation to lie in a certain range?

Should we genetically modify humans we send to Mars? Part 2