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BBC Ideas: A(very) short guide to the Universe

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  1. A vampire bat flies in a cave with wings spread. It has large ears and two central pointed upper teeth.

  2. A dead fish floats in a river.

  3. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the opening of the COP30 conferences in Belem, Brazil.

  4. A sandy beach with about six people, mostly on their hands and knees, clearing up small plastic pellets

  5. Helen Sharman, wearing a space suit, in her official portrait for the Project Juno

  6. Red lava and smoke shoots from black mountains into the air

  7. Person wearing white suit stood near lake carrying a black plastic bag. He is stood near to a tree and you cannot see their face.

  8. A screenshot of the Met Office website with a 2D map of the south west, including Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, with a yellow overlay warning of rain in the region.

  9. An image of a gold, crystal jar against a black background

  10. A large amount of construction waste dumped in a small street.

  11. Pepsi the barn owl has a pure white chest and head, with brown feathers on top of his head, and speckly brown and orange feathers on his left wing. He is within an enclosure, with wooden partitions and mesh walls.

  12. A flamingo. Its feathers are a mixture of pink and black/grey.

  13. A grey and white baby seal sat on rocks by a mount of seaweed. It is looking away from camera at the seaweed. There are some large rocks in the background slightly blurred.

  14. Multiple recycling bins, boxes and bags with a close up on a food caddie filled with food waste.

  15. A windfarm on a sunny day, witharound a dozen wind turbines visible

  16. A picture of the road taken from a steep hill below. A large section of earth has fallen free of the hill and left a gap underneath the asphalt. Wooden stakes supporting a wire fence are dangling in the air as the ground they had been installed in has disappeared. A metal fence has been put in place on the road.

  17. The image shows "what you see vs what you do not see" side by side image showing what a window looks like from the human eye (left) and what it looks like from a bird's point of view (right). The image is of a window from the inside of a building. There is a three seater red chair in front of the window. Outside the window, there is a tree, grass and buildings.

  18. Three researchers from the University of Leicester on their arctic voyage wearing orange overalls. Stood in front of a concrete jetty. Snow-capped mountains are in the background.

  19. A house made of wood painted purple and green with a wooden door. There is a small brick building behind it. There is a mattress in front of the house and debris on the ground. The building has no rood. There are fallen trees. The sky is grey and cloudy.

  20. Professor Grunwald and another medic hold a wire as part of the thrombectomy

  21. A golden lion tamarin and a baby on a tree branch

  22. Four members of the Power Hull group stand by a wall inside the Lonsdale Community Centre. From left to right is Kevin Paulson who has short white hair and weras glasses an a green sweater, Ryan Ward who has black hair and beard and wears a dark green jumper, Ellen Clarke who has long brown hair and wears a blue patterned scarf, black shirt and green cardigan and Lauren Duguid who has short red hair a black top and green trousers.

  23. Benika has curly red-brown shoulder-length hair and black glasses. She is wearing a black jumper, and there are green leaves behind her.

  24. Farmers Mat and Lloyd Smith wear high-vis orange jackets and there is a tractor behind them.