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  1. Stars in the night sky twinkle behind astronomer Nick Hewitt, who is wearing a black winter jacket and has grey hair and glasses. There is a notebook under one of his arms.

  2. Three men and a woman in orange astronaut uniforms smile with their arms folded as they face the camera.

  3. Asteroid in night sky

    • BBC Radio 4

  5. This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, 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. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

  6. A silhouetted figure stands on rocks and watches a meteor streak across the sky

  7. Artwork of Uranus and five of its moons

  8. Low angle image of a man from behind, looking up at the night sky

  9. India's Moon Lander Vikram that landed near the lunar south pole as part of Chandrayaan-3

  10. A large black inflatable planetarium is positioned in a field next to other tents and marquees. It has a red curtain covering its entrance. Out the front is a chalk A-board which says Cosmodrome and lists the times of such events as "the dark side of the moon".

  11. A Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft takes off. Orange flames shoot out of the rocket launcher.

  12. Astronaut Matthew Dominick squirting ketchup into his mouth on the International Space Station

  13. Ariane 5 rocket lifts off at the European Spaceport in French Guiana successfully launching the INTELSAT-33e in 2016

  14. Image of International Space Station

  15. A meteor streaks in the skies above Stonehenge

  16. The supermoon is visible in the twilight as dozens of seagulls fly through the frame

  17. An artists mock-up of the refuelling station in action. The refuelling tool is on the left hand side, whilst a satellite is on the right

  18. A recent photo of Helen Sharman smiling at the camera. She has short brown hair and is wearing rimmed glasses

  19. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 16 August.

  20. SpaceX's Starship flies during its fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas.

  21. SpaceX Starship booster caught in mid air

  22. A blue sky, with a yellow haze underneath. In the yellow haze, there is a streak of bright light, next to some wisps of dark cloud.

  23. Starship taking off in a blaze of clouds

  24. Meteors streaking though clear skies over a church in Northern Ireland