The winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition have been announced! The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in partnership with BBC Sky at Night Magazine and Flickr, invited astrophotographers from all around the world to submit their best images showcasing the spectacular beauty of the night sky and our universe.
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Spectacular astrophotography taken at Earth & Sky Mt. John Observatory in New Zealand, one of four International Dark Sky Reserves in the world. Its neighboring town of Lake Tekapo powers down at night to allow the stargazers to take in the unpolluted sky filled with celestial bodies.
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It’s hard to believe, but this beautiful photo of the Milky Way was taken from an airplane window. Astrophotographer Alessandro Merga captured it while flying over the Atlantic ocean, using an exposure time of close to 30 seconds while opening the lens up wide to let in the right amount of light.
20 years after the iconic Pillars of Creation image was captured in 1995, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the Eagle Nebula (a.k.a. Messier 16) to bring us brand-new views of the breathtakingly beautiful structures formed from gas and dust.
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Following a severe thunderstorm over Bangladesh in late April, Jeff Dai captured these stunning photos of giant circular ripples of glowing air in the night sky while he was on the Tibet Plateau of China. This incredible phenomenon was the result of airglow, the weak emission of light by a planetary atmosphere.
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