June has positively flown past, with over half of 2021 already over. And while we still wait for an end to the global COVID-19 pandemic, life has had to carry on as best it can. Thankfully, the world of science never fails to give us great images to share.
This month, we've had partial eclipses, supermoons, volcanic eruptions and a lot of sea snot in Turkey.
We've also had our fair share of extreme weather events, with California and other states in the Southwest of the USA experiencing a historic drought.
We bring you the best images in science that June had to offer...
That sinking feeling
An aerial view of a sinkhole that was found by farmers in a field of crops in Santa Maria Zacatepec, state of Puebla, Mexico, on 1 June 2021. Two days after first appearing, the hole had grown to a width of 80 metres. Photo by Jose Castanares/AFP/Getty Images
Given to fly
A man performs on a Flyboard in the Gulf Emirate of Sharja on 3 June 2021. Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
Milky Way-cool
The Milky Way is seen in the sky over Datang Miao Village in Bingmei Town, Congjiang County, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, 6 June 2021. Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
Plastic beach
Plastic figures created by multidisciplinary artist Caitlin Doherty, and made with plastics removed from Canadian shorelines, are seen at Kitsilano Beach to draw attention to plastic pollution on 7 June 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Artificial reefs
Divers taking part in a project to document shipwrecks in Cyprus with 360º images to promote the Mediterranean island as a dive destination for tourists, take photos of the Lef1 shipwreck off the coast of Larnaca on 8 June 2021. LEF1, a 15 metre long vessel, was sunk in December 2019 to a depth of around 15 metres and is one of several vessels sunk in the islands waters to create artificial reefs to promote marine life in the area. Photo by Emily Irving-Swift/AFP/Getty Images
A burning ring of fire
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the Sun rises behind the United States Capitol Building, Thursday 10 June 2021, as seen from Arlington, Virginia, USA. The annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse is only visible to some people in Greenland, Northern Russia, and Canada. Photo by: NASA/Bill Ingalls
An aerial photo taken on 11 June 2021 shows a landscape area of farmland complex under sunrise in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, China. Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
Snotty seas
A drone photo shows an aerial view of the mucilage (sea snot) partly covering the surface of sea in Canakkale, Turkey, on 13 June 2021. Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Bird simulation
Members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces Rescue and Relief Unit take part in a biochemical simulation organized by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as part of the "African Lion" military exercise, in the port of Agadir, on 15 June 2021. Photo by Fadel Senna/Getty Images
Space selfie
Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) takes a space-selfie on 16 June 2021 with his spacesuit's helmet visor down during a spacewalk to install new roll out solar arrays on the International Space Station's P-6 truss structure. Photo by NASA/ESA
We may experience some turbulence
This image, released on 17 June 2021, shows the uncrewed HiDRON stratospheric glider from Stratodynamics in flight above the Earth. In a series of flights between 1 and 6 June 2021, Stratodynamics launched its HiDRON stratospheric glider from a high-altitude balloon to study turbulence. Photo by Stratodynamics/UAVOS/NASA
Night eruption
Lava erupts from the South-East crater during a third paroxysmal nocturnal phase of Etna with ash emission dispersing in an East-North-East direction on 19 June 2021 in Catania, Italy. Volcanic ash from Etna caused local airport runways to close. Photo by Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images
Sharing is caring
Peregrine falcons transfer food to one another in San Pedro on 19 June 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Photo by Nick Ut/Getty Images
Head for heights
Tourists go sightseeing on the suspended viewing platform of the Zhunger Yellow River Grand Canyon scenic area in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, 20 June 2021. Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
I spot a seal
One of the six spotted seal pups of the Tyulen rehabilitation centre for marine mammals that was released on the 21 June 2021 into the Peter the Great Gulf off Zheltukhina Island, Primorye Territory, Russia. Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS/Getty Images
Juice-y mission
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) pictured in the Large Space Simulator at ESTEC just before the chamber is closed for a thermal-vacuum test dry run, on the 22 June 2021.Once in the Jovian system, JUICE will make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant exoplanets now known to orbit other stars. Photo byESA/SJM Photography
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A commuter on a bicycle wears a green tee shirt reading car is over as he rides on a bicycle lane in central Berlin, Germany, on 22 June 2021. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
Flood prevention
Aerial photo taken on 23 June 2021 shows water discharged from Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province. Since 19 June when the Yellow River started to divert water and sediment before flood in 2021, the discharge from Xiaolangdi Reservoir has been increasing day by day. Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
Indoor rainbow
A rainbow is seen at a 290-metre deep karst sinkhole, located near the village of Luoquanyan, on 23 June 2021 in Xuan en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province of China. Photo by Song Wen/VCG/Getty Images
Qingtian bridge is falling down
The Qingtian Floating Bridge pictured being demolished in Binzhou, Shandong Province, China, on 23 June 2021. Shandong's Yellow River Bureau has launched a mechanism to prevent major floods, and 54 Yellow River pontoon Bridges have been dismantled in the province. Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
Drought crisis
The tall bleached "bathtub ring" is visible on the rocky banks of Lake Powell at Reflection Canyon on 24 June 2021 in Lake Powell, Utah, USA. As severe drought grips parts of the Western United States, a below-average flow of water is expected to flow through the Colorado River Basin into two of its biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Lake Powell is currently at 34.56 per cent of capacity, a historic low. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The rocket now arriving at platform one...
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage carrying 36 British OneWeb internet communication satellites is being transported to the launch pad at Vostochny Cosmodrome, in the Amur region of Russia, 28 June 2021. The launch is scheduled for 1 July 2021. Photo by Roscosmos Press OfficeTASS/Getty Images
James Cutmore is the picture editor of BBC Science Focus Magazine. He has worked on the magazine and website for over a decade, telling compelling science stories through the use of striking imagery. He holds a degree in Fine Art, and has been nominated for the British Society of Magazine Editors Talent Awards, being highly commended in 2020. His main areas of interest include photography that highlights positive technology and the natural world. For many years he was a judge for the Wellcome Trust's image competition, as well as judging for the Royal Photographic Society.
PRIMORYE TERRITORY, RUSSIA JUNE 21, 2021: One of the six spotted seal pups of the Tyulen rehabilitation centre for marine mammals that has been released into the Peter the Great Gulf off Zheltukhina Island. Yuri Smityuk/TASS (Photo by Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)
