Star of the show! Astronomy Photographer of the Year entries are revealed
The magnificent images of our sky and galaxy appeared after thousands of entrances to the astronomical photography contest of the year.
A showing a remarkable jet in front of the sun caught by Chinese photographer Zhang Yanguang.
The painting taken in Southeast China, Xiamen received great praise for the competition ‘People and Space’ category.
The winners are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in southeast of London.
One of the prominent, Chinese photographer Zhang Yanguang is a jet flying in front of the sun.
Tom Rae from New Zealand won the SkysCapes category. The photograph captures the Milky Way seeds with the Milky Way core to the left of the image, the famous southern cross and other pointers in the central sky.
Aurora praised by Dan Zafra in Spain through Lake Mono
Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu from China won the Galaxies category with this image.
Second place in the category of people and spaces showing the northern hemisphere of Kurosaki in Japan
Aurora Second by Luis Viliño in Spain, Göksel Arch
I think Tóth praised Péter Feltóti and Berttalan Kecskés from Hungary, Catgeory Galaxies
This image series documents the explosion of a large sun’s forefront that emerged as a small protrusion from the surface of the sun, which expands to a tremendous plasma structure in space before scattering into the void. Zhang Yanguang’s image was the second in our Sun category
Stars and Nebulae second from China are Zixiong Jin. This image exhibits the iconic NGC 6960, also known as the veil nebula.
Andre Vilhena’s image from Portugal praised the category of plants comets and asteroids. This image shows Mars when it becomes retrograde
Marcella Giulia Pace from Italy won the Moon category. This image captures the atmospheric fracture phenomenon in which the moonlight is bent in a similar way to light rays through a prism, and moonlight passes through the intense layers of the world’s atmosphere.
