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  1. A long-exposure photo of the night sky during the Perseid Meteor Shower shows circular star trails caused by Earth's rotation. Trees with green and yellow leaves are visible in the foreground.

  2. A large excavator vehicle on the bank of the Thames

  3. The community recycling centre at Camberley. A white sign has the logos of Suez and Surrey County Council and says: "Recycling and recovery, Camberley community recycling centre." It also has the opening times for the tip. Another sign wars that a camera is in use.

    4. A bottlenose dolphin balancing a coral on its rostrum

    • Dead pilot whales on a beach, with blue sky in the distance.

    • A photo showing a green wheelie bin on a street next to a red bricked wall and a lamp post. In the background there is a row of red brick houses.

    • The small, gold object in the palm of someone's hand. It is covered in dirt but the bright gold can be seen underneath it. It has a stem and round top with circular patterns carved into it.

    • A blurry picture of two white-tailed eagles in a nest surrounded by tree branches. One is paler than than the other.

    • A mock-up artwork of a mural featuring two beavers.

    • A man with dark hair and a dark beard holding a husky dog

    • A woman with long brown hair, tied back. She is wearing a navy t-shirt. She's standing in front of a fence, with Lough Neagh visible in the background.

    • A meteor, circled with a red overlay, streaks over a field at night. A fence is pictured in the foreground of the image and a thin line of trees is faintly visible in the distance.

    • A blonde woman in a wet suit is swimming while holding a camera with light shining. Salps, which look a bit like a jellyfish, are surrounding her in all directions. Salps look like lines of see-through strips with fairy lights on them.

      • Emergency workers in blue and red uniforms stand on a building that has crumbled from the earthquake. It is night time and the debris is light brightly by spot lights.

      • Dead pilot whales on a beach

      • A group of California firefighters on the right, wearing red-and-white hats and fireproof jackets, walk around a brightly burning fire that is burning on the left. There is a lot of smoke in the background.

      • A yellow sign hangs on a finger post, with a cross through a hammer, saying 'Fossil collecting. No hammering of the cliffs or bedrock. Collect from loose natural material only. Please follow the fossil collecting code'. In the background is a beach, and fields.

      • a grey seal lying on the sand facing the camera

      • Flooding devastation in China as seen from the air

      • Meteorite spotted in Georgia in daylight

      • The doctors at the University Hospital of North Tees training on the Da Vinci robotic surgery machine One of the doctors, who is wearing scrubs, is operating the robotic machinery using a small control. The robotic equipment has a long surgical device inserted into a plastic shell on an operating table. A group of other doctors are watching.

      • A small digger is parked on a large pile of pieces of concrete with its bucket resting on the ground. A building to the left has been partly dismantled. Behind the digger is a two-storey building.

      • A woman with long hair smiles as she is flanked by a white horse and a brown horse

      • A closeup of a pile of black, tan and white egg cases lying on top of sand