Astrophotography

The annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition highlights the beauty of the night sky. The shortlist for 2023 has now been published, starring some stunning shots of the Sun, our majestic Milky Way, and awe-inspiring aurorae.

Our gorgeous galaxy is again the focus of an astrophotography collection. Travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published its Milky Way Photographer of the Year gallery for 2023, including some astonishing shots of the starriest of night skies.

The winner of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest is a shot of a rarely seen "disconnection event" when solar winds break off a part of a comet’s tail. The image is just one highlight of many in the world's most prestigious astrophotography contest.

The Milky Way is one of the night sky’s most majestic subjects for photography, so it's the star of travel blog Capture the Atlas's annual competition. The 25 winning shots of this year’s Milky Way Photographer of the Year have now been unveiled.

Astronomers have captured a stunning image of one of the Milky Way’s neighboring spiral galaxies. The portrait was taken using an instrument that was created to hunt down dark energy – a force that may be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

This selection of winning shots from the 2020 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest span everything from a gorgeously impressionistic shot of colorful stratospheric clouds, to a surreal snap of a laser homing in on a distant globular cluster.

Photographers who point their cameras at the night sky now have a new full-frame mirrorless model courtesy of Canon. The EOS Ra is a tweaked version of last year's EOS R, a 30-MP shooter with Dual Pixel CMOS AF and 4K30p video capabilities.

This mind-expanding assortment of images affirm the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year as the world’s top astrophotography competition.

In its 11th year the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year is one of the world’s most impressive astrophotography competitions. This year’s shortlist highlights a variety of entries including an incredible nebulae shot reminiscent of the Eye of Mordor, and a series of gorgeous skyscapes.

The winners of the incredible Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards have been revealed showing off spectacular work from the world’s best astrophotographers. The top prize was given to Brad Goldpaint for his sublime shot of a lone photographer capturing the Milky Way in Moab, Utah.

Running since 2009, the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year is one of the world’s most exciting astrophotography competitions with a grand prize of £10,000. Ahead of the winners announced in October the shortlisted photographs deliver a spectacularly mind-bending array of images.

The David Malin Awards is an astrophotography competition based in Australia celebrating the greatest astronomical photos from the last twelve months. This year’s overall winner was a magnificent image from Luke Tscharke showing the Milky Way rising over a lake at night in southern Tasmania.