The winning images from this year's various categories are stunning.
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 fifteenth year holding the contest, which garnered more than 4,000 submissions from 64 different countries for 2023. AThis year's winning image As the world's largest astrophotography competition, Royal Observatory Greenwich divides winners into 11 categories, and from those chooses an overall winner.
This year's top spot came from the Galaxies category, and was awarded to Marcel Drechsler, from Germany, and French photographers Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty, with their photo of the Andromeda galaxy.Andromeda, Unexpected, the winning photo for Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy photographer of the Year 15.from the amateur astronomer team led by Drechsler, Strottner and Sainty is titled, for the large, blue plasma arc pictured next to our nearest galactic neighbor.
The plasma streak was, in fact, a discovery all on its own, according to a release from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and is now being studied by scientists as possibly the largest phenomenon of its type in our little corner ofRunner-up and highly commended entries for the Galaxies category went to Weitang Liang, from China, and Paul Montague, from Australia, for their respective photos,
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