From Andromeda to “God’s Eye”: These are the best astronomy photos of the year | Competition

winning photo Astronomy Photographer of the Year It’s rare: it shows part of the comet’s tail Leonard To disconnect and swept away by the solar wind. disconnect event Photographed by Gerald Riemann, Austrian photographer, and taken on Christmas Day, in Namibia. This comet, first identified in January 2021, was the brightest that year, but will never be seen from Earth again.

Among other award-winning photos, there is also a photo of 14-year-old Chinese teenagers, who won an award guy Photographer Astronomy for this year with the image of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy; Photograph by British photographer Martin Lewis, who captured a giant lunar crater and an ethereal image of the Helix Nebula, known as “God’s Eye” (photo 23 from Gallery).

The list of featured images also includes those in Portuguese Miguel ClaroAnd the Giant at the edge of the sun (Photo 25), taken at the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory.

a Photographer Astronomy for this year It is a competition organized by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. This year it received more than 3,000 applications, from photographers spread across 67 countries.