Lovot companion robots by Groove X wander in front their booth at CES Unveiled during the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5, 2020. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Reuters)

On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. (Photo by NASA/GSFC/SDO via The Atlantic)

“People and Space”. Winner: Wanderer in Patagonia by Yuri Zvezdny (Russia) A lone stargazer stares up at the stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as they stretch across the night sky over the glacier “White Stones” (Piedras Blancas) in the Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, 27 September 2016 iOptron Sky-Tracker mount, Sony A7S camera, 18 mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 5000, 30-second exposure Wanderer in Patagonia. (Photo by Yuri Zvezdny/Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017)

Circus performer from the Association of Circus Proprietors on Whitehall, London, Britain, 07 July 2020. The association handed a petition to Downing Street to ask British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to allow circuses to reopen. (Photo by Will Oliver/EPA/EFE)

A woman sells fried chicken at the Kyaik-Khauk pagoda festival in the Tanlyin township outside Yangon February 4, 2015. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

People watch an eruption of the South East volcano of Etna is seen from the village of Nicolosi, Italy February 10, 2022. (Photo by Antonio Parrinello/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers play the parts of wounded civilians during a drill simulating a toxic spill from an attack on a train in Beersheba, southern Israel, 13 January 2016, as Home Front medical teams, fire fighters and police carry out rescue operations. The large scale drill is the concluding exercise of the Fourth International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters and includes some 200 of the world's experts on health system readiness from around the world. The conference is dealing with all types of medical emergencies from terrorist attacks to natural disasters. (Photo by Jim Hollander/EPA)

Children play at a beach in Lhoknga, Indonesia's Aceh province, on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)