The most impressive pictures from the worlds of science and technology this week, including an amazing aurora and a Mexican moonscape.
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Smoking aerobatics and lurid lightning
Hoverbike prototypes and hitching robots
Speeding warbirds and a luminous Super Moon
Streaking space launches and menacing volcanoes
A tiny frog and a hitching robot
A world’s-first hologram and outer space veg
Stork silhouette and a four-winged dinosaur
Incredible lightning and a stranded whale
Futuristic dancers and swirling stars
Sci-fi balloons and hungry whales
Robot giraffe and double tornado
Supersonic selfie and eerie rivers
A brooding storm and a Super Earth
Roaring rockets and an Earth selfie
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