Marcel Drexler (Germany), Xavier Strautner and Yann Santi (France) won the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year award with the photo “Andromeda, Unexpected.” Image of giant plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda Galaxy) – Photo: Daily Mail
According to The Guardian newspaper (UK), the winning works in this astronomy photo contest open up completely new perspectives for us about the vast universe beyond Earth.
According to information from the organizing committee – the Royal Greenwich Observatory (London, England) – this year’s competition received more than 4,000 entries from 61 countries.
After several rounds of rigorous selection, the jury decided to award the highest prize to the author group Marcel Drexler (Germany), Xavier Strautner and Yann Santi (France) for the photo “Andromeda, Unexpected”. Image of the giant plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda Galaxy).
Meanwhile, the winner of the 2023 Young Photographer Award is Runwei Xu and Binyu Wang, two 14-year-old boys from China who created a work called “The Running Chicken Nebula”, which captures the nebula IC 2944, located in the constellation Sagittarius.
Dr Ed Bloomer, Astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, said: “Once again, the participants in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition ‘dazzled’ the judges with so many high-quality photographs, capturing many amazing images. “
Photographer Aaron Wilhelm’s photo “Sh2-132: Blinded by the Light” won the award for the diffuse nebula Sh2-132, located at the edge of the constellation Cepheus and Lacerta. Best New Writer – Photo: Daily Mail
Photographer Monica Daviet’s image titled “Brushstroke”, which captures a brush stroke-shaped aurora, won first prize in the Aurora category – Photo: Daily Mail
Photographer Ethan Chappell’s Mars-set image, taken as the Moon passes by and Mars becomes obscured on December 8, 2022, takes top spot in Moon photo category – Photo: Daily Mail
Meanwhile, photographer Eduardo Scheuberg Paupeau (-)’s photo shoot “A Sun Question” won first prize in the Sun Photo category. Photo accidentally captures the moment plasma fibers twisted into the shape of a question mark – Photo: Daily Mail
Photographer Marcel Drexler’s photo “New class of galactic nebula around the star YY Hyya” won first prize in the photo category of stars and nebulae – Photo: DAILY MAIL
The owners of the 2023 Young Astronomy Photographer Award are two photographers from China, Runwei Xu and Binyu Wang, with their photo “The Running Chicken Nebula.” An image of the nebula IC 2944, located in the constellation Sagittarius and about 6,000 light years from Earth – Photo: Daily Mail
Photographer Angel N’s photo “Grand Cosmic Fireworks” won first prize in the Sky Photo category. This work records a firework-shaped sprite (distorted lightning), an extremely rare high-atmospheric electrical discharge phenomenon on the highest slopes of the Himalayas – Photo: Daily Mail
Photographer John White’s photo “Black Echo” won an Annie Maunder Award. This photo recreates the visual image of the sound emanating from the black hole of the Perseus galaxy cluster, located about 250 million light years from Earth – Photo: Daily Mail
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