Belgium's Lisa Ingenito competes in the Mixed Artistic Swimming duet technical final on August 15, 2022 during the LEN European Aquatics Championships in Rome. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo)

Elle & The Pocket Belles on day three of the Qatar Goodwood Festival 2022 at Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester on Thursday July 28, 2022. (Photo by Steven Paston/PA Wire)

Beautiful, strange and occasionally alarming pictures from the shortlist for this year’s Wellcome image awards – which celebrate the very best in science photography and imaging – from an x-ray of a bat to a micrograph of a kidney stone. The exhibition opens on 12 March at three science centres and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Photo: Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of an Arabidopsis thaliana flower, also commonly known as thale cress. Some of the anthers are open, revealing pollen grains ready for dispersal. Arabidopsis was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is widely used as a model organism in molecular and plant biology. Horizontal width of image is 1200 microns. Magnification 100x. (Photo by Stefan Eberhard/Wellcome Images)

Enthusiasts gathered at Cad East in Snowdonia National Park, England to take pictures of F-15 Eagle fighters as they completed the Mach Loop, November 2017. (Photo by Caters News Agency)

A demonstrator gestures during protests around the Argentine Parliament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 March 2022. Serious disturbances were registered in the surroundings of the seat of the Argentine Parliament when demonstrators protesting against the new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) clashed with the police of the city of Buenos Aires. (Photo by Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EPA/EFE)

Greece competes in the final of the women's team free artistic swimming event during the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 21, 2023. (Photo by François-Xavier Marit/AFP Photo)

The picture dated July 8, 2023 shows the Typhoon performing at the RAF Waddington Families Day in Lincolnshire, UK. A number of iconic planes took to the skies in the action-packed day for service personnel and their friends and families. (Photo by Claire Hartley/Bav Media)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off in Florida on Saturday, October 21, 2023. The rocket is carrying 23 Starlink satellites. (Photo by Malcolm Denemark/AP Photo)