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The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

James Temple was "in the right place at the right time" to take these dramatic images of SpaceX's Starship's seventh flight test disintegrating above the Atlantic Ocean

Mark Catesby's work documents the plants and animals he saw while journeying in North America and the Caribbean

Andrew McConnell's otherworldly photograph captures a Russian cosmonaut in front of the just-landed Soyuz MS spacecraft in Kazakhstan's remote grasslands

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Nearly 2000 images were submitted for the annual competition, which aims to draw attention to the challenges facing Earth. Six of the best photographs are shown here

Photographer Kristina Varaksina has documented the lot of people living near what was once the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, the Aral Sea, much of which has become a barren desert

From the glorious Wildlife Photographer of the Year tome to a breathtaking collection of images captured from the International Space Station, this is New Scientist’s pick of the best photography books of the year

Herschel's discovery in the 18th century of 560 missing stars is the focus of new audio-visual work from photographic artist Lynda Laird