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

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  1. The image shows a close up of the climate stripes featured on the rear wing of the race car. It goes from dark blue on the left side to pale blue in the middle and then red and dark red on the right side. The car is a bright green.

  2. a woman walks through knee-deep muddy water on a flooded street with a group of flats behind her. She is wearing a green coat, jeans and black hat and carrying a rucksack and a black and grey scarf

  3. Two dead fish lie on the surface of a pond. They are small white perch, and lie in muddy water next to leave and branches

  4. Kirree Kermode has blonde hair loosely tied up. She is wearing a blue Manx tartan scarf and a dark blue gilet over a dark coloured jumper. She is standing in a field at dusk.

  5. The iconic shot of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Sea of Tranquility in the 1970 moonlanding.

    6. Vapour rises from a chimney at the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Medupi coal-fired power station in Lephalale, South Africa, on Thursday, May 19, 2022. South Africas Eskom is increasing power cuts to prevent a total collapse of the grid as issues grow from lack of imports to breakdowns at its coal-fired plants

    • Woman in orange coat, yellow hat and headphones holds a metal detector over her shoulder. She smiles at the camera, army print gloves on and matching bag around her waist. She stands on grass, the sky is overcast.

    • Brazilian indigenous leader stands during interview with BBC at COP30

    • Rhi Evans cuddles an emu in a field. Ms Evans is wearing a black baseball cap and a red plaid shirt.

    • A helicopter flies in a blue cloudy sky above a power line

    • A teenage girl, wearing a navy school tie and a white shirt, with glasses on her head, smiling at the camera.

    • Two men wearing high-vis clothing and white hard hats slot metal beams into place, along the waterfront in Bewdley. The swollen River Severn can be seen on right, in front of the barrier, with a red-brick building behind the barrier that has white-framed windows, a green sign hanging on it, and decorative lights hanging from it.

    • A lorry in a flooded street with a car passing by on the other side of the road, past an orange traffic cone, with a man with a hose attempting to clean the roadside

    • A man is on a beach, holding a large plastic hose. He's dressed in black, with a navy blue cap

    • A close up of a badger

    • A window looking out onto Douglas Bay - there are raindrops on the window.

    • A juvenile flamingo flying above water. The bird has a mixture of pink and black feathers and has some feathers clipped on its right wing. There are rocks and trees in the background and some smaller birds flying beneath the flamingo.

    • A man dressed in florescent orange is loading recycling into a green council recycling van.

    • A woman kneeling down next to a pond. The woman is holding a plastic bag close to the water to release the species. The water is murky and leaves are floating on the surface.

    • 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.

    • People visit the National Museum in Damascus after it reopened (9 January 2025)

    • The plinth of the Guthries memorial on the Isle of Man, with the Northern Lights in the background: a bright pink sky with a light green hue behind. Stars can be seen twinkling in the pink sky.

    • Candelabra Coral fungus - it is cream in colour and has white branches resembling a candelabra.

    • Russian AI robot falls on stage during debut