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Solar Flare X1 from AR2994 in ?Motion? ? Miguel Claro Photograph of the Sun taken from a 27-minute timelapse of a solar, flare which took place on 30 April 2022. Taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit ED120 telescope, Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount, Player One Apollo M-Max Solar camera, 840 mm, 900 frames at 9.1 ms per frame (recorded as video at 109 FPS) Location: Dark Sky Alqueva region, ?vora district, Portugal

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See the remarkable photos up for Astronomy Photographer of the Year

From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK

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Female porters, known as 'kayayei', carry bales of second-hand garments on their heads at the Kantamanto textile market in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The rise of fast fashionand shoppers preference for quantity over qualityhas led to a glut of low-value clothing that inordinately burdens developing countries. Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The Power of One review: The woman who blew the whistle on Facebook

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