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  1. A robot faces an astronaut

  2. A rocket blasts off in India

  3. Space crew on ISS

  4. Asteroid

  5. astronauts in spacecraft

  6. A circular pod is seen parked in the mountains of Ladakh, it is sliver in colour and held up with little pole structures held in place with plywood boxes, with the browny-red backdrop of the Ladakh mountains in the background and some clouds in a dark sky.

  7. In this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, thousands of glimmering galaxies are seen within a massive galaxy cluster against the dark backdrop of Space. There is a red circle on the image signalling where the Firefly Sparkle galaxy is located within the cluster.

  8. Space object in the dark sky filled with stars. The object has two panels either side and a bulky box shape in the middle.

  9. 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.

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

  11. Asteroid in night sky

    • BBC Radio 4

  13. 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)

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

  15. Artwork of Uranus and five of its moons

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

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

  18. 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".

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

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

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

  22. Image of International Space Station

  23. A meteor streaks in the skies above Stonehenge

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