The winners of have been announced. Astronomer and competition judge Edward Bloomer discussed his personal highlights and showcased some of the winning and shortlisted entries for this year鈥檚 competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in London. 鈥淭he universe itself is the astrophotographer’s playground,鈥 he says.
This year’s winner 鈥 a deep-space photograph of the Andromeda galaxy by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty wasn’t only an aesthetically stunning image, says Bloomer, but showed a previously unseen region of ionised oxygen. 鈥淲e don’t really know what’s going on there,鈥 he says, 鈥渂ut we can sort of characterise it in a way now. We’re now in the process of investigating that.鈥
The is now open at the National Maritime Museum, London.
