images of the week

Science storytelling through photography

Southern beauties captured in nature

Last dance of Danube mayflies

Super slow pulsar, rare white whale and an ice shelf cracking up

Elephant head count, Madeline and Lester visit Hawaii and an age-defying star

Coral, pathogens, and space stations

Saturn’s shrinking shadow, senior sharks and shooting stars on show

Winners of BMC Ecology awards

Stellar stunner, paint under pressure and a robo-hoedown

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 shortlist announced

Sloths, parasites and dark matter

Orion Nebula, rise of the monkeys and over the cliff on a comet

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