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The best science and technology pictures of the week

The most impressive pictures from the worlds of science and technology this week, including an amazing aurora and a Mexican moonscape.

12 September 2014
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Smoking aerobatics and lurid lightning

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Wading rhinos and wasp nests

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Hoverbike prototypes and hitching robots

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Speeding warbirds and a luminous Super Moon

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Streaking space launches and menacing volcanoes

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A tiny frog and a hitching robot

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A world’s-first hologram and outer space veg

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Stork silhouette and a four-winged dinosaur

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Incredible lightning and a stranded whale

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Futuristic dancers and swirling stars

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Sci-fi balloons and hungry whales

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Robot giraffe and double tornado

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Supersonic selfie and eerie rivers

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A brooding storm and a Super Earth

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Roaring rockets and an Earth selfie

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