The most impressive pictures from the worlds of science and technology this week, from an awesome airshow stun t to a spectacular rocket ac...
The most impressive pictures from the worlds of science and technology this week, from an awesome airshow stunt to a spectacular rocket accident.
Funfair moon and orbital panoramas
(Nasa/ESA/Alexander Gerst)
Fuelling fighter jets and European lights
(US Air Force/Reuters)
Underwater spies and cheerleader robots
An underwater view of “Sharc”, a wave-powered, autonomous ocean vehicle for surveillance and communications. (Liquid Robotics/Reuters)
Fire-bombing airliners and awesome black holes
A specially converted airliner swoops in low to drop fire retardant chemicals on a blaze in 8,600 acres of forest near Fresh Pond in California. (Reuters)
An eerie aurora and a night-time launch
(Nasa/ESA/Reuters)
Smoking aerobatics and lurid lightning
(AFP/Getty Images)
Wading rhinos and wasp nests
(AFP/Getty Images)
Hoverbike prototypes and hitching robots
(Malloy Aeronautics)
Speeding warbirds and a luminous Super Moon
(The Colorado Springs Gazette/AP)
Streaking space launches and menacing volcanoes
(Florida Today/AP)
A tiny frog and a hitching robot
(Sealife London Aquarium/PA)
A world’s-first hologram and outer space veg
(Getty Images)
Stork silhouette and a four-winged dinosaur
(Reuters)
Incredible lightning and a stranded whale
(Daniel Brenner, Gillette News Record/AP)
Futuristic dancers and swirling stars
(Sebastian Guillermaz/APOTY)
Sci-fi balloons and hungry whales
(AP)
Robot giraffe and double tornado
(Getty Images)
Supersonic selfie and eerie rivers
(David Cenciotti)
A brooding storm and a Super Earth
(Center for Astrophysics/Reuters)
Roaring rockets and an Earth selfie
Japan's H-IIA rocket lifts off from a space centre on the island of Tanegashima to deploy a new mapping satellite for surveying natural disaster damage. (AFP/Getty Images)