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“Electric Wizardry” by Shane Turgeon.

The Northern Lights are reflected in the still waters of a lake in Alberta, Canada.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

#shane turgeon #photographer #northern lights #aurora borealis #lake #alberta #canada #nature #landscape #astronomy photographer of the year contest #astrophotography

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A Rare Glimpse of Comet Leonard’s Last Moments Wins the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

#comet #astronomy #photography #stars #landscape #aurora borealis #science #contest

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Awe Inspiring Winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

Look up at the night sky,  there is amazement everywhere you look. These incredible winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest. show us that. Learn more about the contest on the Royals Museums Greenwich website.   Winner: Andromeda, Unexpected by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty   Runner-up: The Eyes Galaxy by Weitang Liang   Highly commended: Neighbours by Paul…

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#Royal Observatory in Greenwich #The Guardian #Astronomy #Photographer of the Year

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#art #space #astronomy #photography #Andromeda #marcel drechsler #xavier strottner #yann sainty #nebula #sun #sonification #black hole #Mars #moon #clouds #stars #aurora #light #fenrir

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Dazzling Winners of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest. A Sun Question” © Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau. Winner Our Sun.

“A photograph of the Sun with a huge filament in the shape of a question mark. Solar filaments are arcs of plasma in the Sun’s atmosphere given shape by magnetic fields. The photo is a mosaic of two panels.”

Courtesy | My Modern Met #astronomy #photography #sun #solar #filaments

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Stunning image of Andromeda galaxy takes top astronomy photography prize of 2023 (gallery)

Space.com By Josh Dinner September 16, 2023 The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15, during an award ceremony held Sept. 14. This was the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s 15th year holding the contest, which garnered more than 4,000 submissions from 64 different countries for 2023. A shortlist of winning submissions was released in July,…

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The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has announced winning and commended entrants in this year’s contest Continue reading...

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"Mehmut Ergun (Germany). 'The Great Solar Flare'. Highly Commended in the Our Sun Category.

Cosmic Delights and Distant Discoveries Unfold in ‘Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15’

September 14, 2023

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Kate Mothes

All images © the photographers, courtesy of Astronomy Photographer of the Year, shared with permission

In its 15th year, the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition (previously) welcomed more than 4,000 entries from photographers in 64 countries, who set their sights on the night skies. From solar flares to dancing auroras to distant galaxies, the winners of this year’s contest highlight the endless wonders of the cosmos and the astonishing technological advances that allow us to see light years away in unprecedented detail.

The overall winning image, “Andromeda, Unexpected,” was the result of a collaboration between astrophotographers Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty. The trio discovered an enormous plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), spurring a transnational scientific collaboration to further investigate the phenomena.

We’ve shared a few favorites here, and you can see all shortlisted images in the contest’s online gallery. If you’re in London, you can visit the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich starting on September 16 to see more than 100 prints on display.

"Runwei Xu, (China) and Binyu Wang, (China). 'The Running Chicken Nebula'. Winner of the Young Astronomy Photographer of The Year Award.

"Angel An (China). 'Grand Cosmic Fireworks'. Winner of the Skyscapes Category.

" Peter Ward.(Australia). 'Dark Star'. Runner-up in the Our Sun Category.

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#astrophotography #night sky #star stuff #gorgeous

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“Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)” by Lionel Majzik.

Comet Leonard was discovered by G.J. Leonard on 3 January 2021 and made its closest pass to Earth on 12 December 2021. The photographer secured some time with the robotic telescope at the Skygems Remote Observatories in Namibia on 27 December to capture this rare glimpse of a comet that will leave the Solar System and not be seen again.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

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Blazing comet tail is whipped by solar winds in astonishing astronomy photo

A never-to-be-seen-again view of Comet Leonard took top prize at the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. from Livescience https://www.livescience.com/comet-leonard-astronomy-photography-winner/ via IFTTT

#IFTTT #Livescience

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I’ve heard it’s not actually known whether the Triangulum Galaxy will collide with Andromeda or the Milky Way before they merge with each other, and I’ve gotta say, I really hope it doesn’t and successfully rubbernecks the collision from like a half million to a million light years away. In 4-5 billion years we’ll be long gone but some of the planets of stars that are forming right now in places like NGC 604 ought to have intelligent life by then, and they ought to get a really cool view. The Antenna Galaxies are nice, but imagine being close to something like that and yet just far enough away to see its shape properly from the outside.

I don’t think much would be visible to the naked eye besides the two central bulges and a faint smear, but that’s the fun part. I want future civilizations to develop the technology to take long-exposure photographs of the night sky and immediately realize that there’s this massive structure there and slowly realize that it’s far, far, far beyond all the stars they know, then that what they thought was the universe is just one disc-shaped galaxy and this thing is much bigger, and as their telescopes get better and extend into other wavelengths see how far across the sky the tidal tails really stretch, behind several different constellations, and discover the absurdly bright x-ray / gamma ray / radio emissions from the two fuzzy yellow patches of sky that had been on star maps since antiquity, and see the twin pairs of astrophysical jets and bubbles of ionized gas as big as their entire galaxy, and eventually realize what’s creating those, and either discover that there’s one much closer to home or wonder why there isn’t (there hasn’t been a supermassive black hole detected in the Triangulum Galaxy).

I want there to be contests in amateur astronomy magazines on countless worlds over a billion years to take the best photo of this collision, each species only seeing one small snapshot of the process.

#space #science!

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Spectacular Shortlist Announced for Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition. 

#astronomy #astrophotography #Astronomy Photographer of the Year #contest #photography contest #stars #universe #northern lights #galaxy

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Mesmerizing Shots of Distant Galaxies and Aurorae Top the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

#photography #science #space #sky #stars #galaxies #moon #light #aurora #contests #lights