Fancy visiting an alien world? Effectively, Mars, considered one of our closest celestial neighbours, is roughly a staggering 225 million kilometres away from Earth – a journey that will take you over 1,000 years to stroll.
However don’t go reaching on your house boots simply but: there’s a lot on planet Earth that appears actually Martian. Not less than, that’s what we will inform from the winner of this yr’s Royal Society Publishing Images Competitors. Whereas it appears like an image of extra-terrestrial crops, it truly reveals a cluster of smile moulds rising in a leafy backyard in the UK (see picture beneath).
However it’s not the one staggering picture on this assortment, which paperwork unusual scientific phenomena. Scroll down beneath to see a real-life crystal forest, a temporal crack, and a jellyfish elevator.
Ecology class runner-up – Put up-war chamois
Microimaging class runner-up – Beacon of crystals in a wild forest
Astronomy class winner – The western veil nebula
Earth science class runner-up – A crack in time
Ecology class winner – Star of the night time
Astronomy class runner-up – Flower Moon on a cloudy night time
Behaviour class runner-up – Ssstandoff
Behaviour class winner – Nightly elevator
Earth science class runner-up – Burning by way of the frozen south