In Photos: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019
László Francsics has been named the overall winner in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 competition, for his composition showing the 35 phases of January’s total lunar eclipse.
Other winners include a panorama of the aurora borealis over the Lofoten Islands in Norway by Nicolai Brügger, an atmospheric image of the photographer Ben Bush with his dog Floyd surrounded by the galactic core of the Milky Way, and a sequence of images of Mars that follows the progress of the great global dust storm by Andy Casely
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Statue of Liberty Nebula, by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
Winner: Stars and Nebulae
M31 Andromeda Galaxy,by Tom Mogford
Highly commended: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
The Jewels of Orion, by Ross Clark
Winner: Best Newcomer
The Watcher, by Nicolai Brügger
Winner: Aurorae
Stellar Flower,by Davy van der Hoeven
Winner: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Ben, Floyd & the Core, by Ben Bush
Winner: People and Space
A Little Fireworks, by Alan Friedman
Winner: Our Sun
Shells of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 3923 in Hydra, by Rolf Wahl Olsen
Winner: Galaxies
Across the Sky of History, by Wang Zheng
Winner: Skyscapes