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Life

The spiky but stunning burrs that litter the South African coast

Walk barefoot through the grass in South Africa and you may step on one of these spiky seeds, which lie in wait, hoping to catch a ride to someplace new

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goby

Life

The hypnotic face and emerald eyes of the yellow pygmy goby

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mould on slide

Life

Mould gets artistic to take particle decay photo to a new level

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pygmy sloth

Life

The pint-sized pygmy sloth found only on one island in the world

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Jupiter

Space

Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera

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bald eagle

Life

Where eagles dare to dumpster dive

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cloud trails

Earth

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

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humpback whale

Life

Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

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solar panels

Space

Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

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Gundelach tubes

Physics

Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes

Some of the first machines ever built to emit X-rays have been given a taste of their own medicine - and these ghostly images are the result

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Life

Shy pangolin hides its face in Mozambique forest

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Space

Forgotten mountain shrine to a Soviet superstar of astrophysics

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Earth

Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

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Earth

Otherworldly 'earth pyramids' make the Alps look alien

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