The majestic, stunning scenery outside Earth in the photos submitted to the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest leaves viewers in awe.
Marcel Drechsler (Germany), Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty (France) won the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 with the photo “Andromeda, Unexpected”. The photo captures a giant plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda Galaxy) - Photo: DAILY MAIL
The winning works at this astronomy photography contest also open up for us completely new perspectives on the vast universe outside of Earth, according to The Guardian (UK).
According to information from the organizing committee - the Royal Greenwich Observatory (London, UK) - this year's contest received more than 4,000 entries from 61 countries.
After many rounds of rigorous selection, the jury decided to award the highest prize to the group of authors Marcel Drechsler (Germany), Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty (France) with the photo “Andromeda, Unexpected”. The photo captures a giant plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda Galaxy).
Meanwhile, the 2023 Young Photographer of the Year award went to two 14-year-old boys from China, Runwei Xu and Binyu Wang, with their work “The Running Chicken Nebula,” which captures the IC 2944 nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius.
“Once again, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year entries have given the judges a tough time with so many high-quality images, capturing some fantastic images,” said Dr Ed Bloomer, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Aaron Wilhelm's photo "Sh2-132: Blinded by the Light" of the diffuse nebula Sh2-132 located near the edge of the constellations Cepheus and Lacerta won the Best New Author award - Photo: DAILY MAIL
The photo titled “Brushstroke” by photographer Monika Deviat captured the aurora in the shape of a brush stroke and won first prize in the Aurora category - Photo: DAILY MAIL
Photographer Ethan Chappel's photo of Mars-Set, taken as the Moon passed over and obscured Mars on December 8, 2022, won the top prize in the Moon Photography category - Photo: DAILY MAIL
Meanwhile, the photo “A Sun Question” by photographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau (-) won first prize in the Solar Photography category. The photo accidentally captured the moment when plasma filaments curved into the shape of a question mark - Photo: DAILY MAIL
The photo “New Class of Galactic Nebulae Around the Star YY Hya” by photographer Marcel Drechsler won first prize in the category of Stars and Nebulae - Photo: DAILY MAIL
The winner of the 2023 Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year award is two photographers from China, Runwei Xu and Binyu Wang, with the photo “The Running Chicken Nebula”. The photo captures the IC 2944 nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius and about 6,000 light years from Earth - Photo: DAILY MAIL
The photo “Grand Cosmic Fireworks” by photographer Angel An won first prize in the Sky Photography category. The work captured a Sprite (lightning) shaped like fireworks, an extremely rare high-atmospheric discharge phenomenon on the highest mountainside of the Himalayas - Photo: DAILY MAIL
Photographer John White's photo "Black Echo" won the Annie Maunder Award. This photo recreates the visual image of the sound emitted by the black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster, located about 250 million light years from Earth - Photo: DAILY MAIL.
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