The winning image shows a lone photographer in Moab, Utah, silhouetted against a night sky that reveals the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the moon.
Unlit street lamps reveal a spectacular view of the stars above the coastal village of Pagham in West Sussex, England.
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies sparkle on a winter night at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, England.
Not to be outshined by an ultra-bright moon, the aurora borealis glows above a fjord in northern Norway’s Lofoten archipelago.
The aurora borealis illuminates the hills fringing the stone circle at Castlerigg in Cumbria, England.
Comprised of twenty separate pictures, this image shows the Milky Way Galaxy against a field of radio telescopes in Ming’antu, China.
This image of the moon's surface reveals rarely seen details.
Mist blankets a village in northern Hungary as the Gamma Andromedae star system—appearing as a wispy line thanks to a long exposure—hovers above in the sky.
Details of the moon are illuminated in this multi-exposure photograph taken during a total solar eclipse in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The spiral galaxy NGC 3251 blazes with color in this long-exposure image.
Showcasing the diversity of objects that are visible in the night sky, this image shows the open cluster of stars NGC 6939 and the galaxy NGC 6949 with the stellar explosion of the supernova SN 2017 EAW.
The dark summer sky glows orange over Limfjord in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark.
A long exposure highlights the shifting color and brightness of the moon during a total lunar eclipse in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China.
Venus appears as a graceful sliver in this infra-red image taken with a digital video camera just before sunset in Hertfordhire, England.
A portrait of the Lambda Centauri Nebula.
A meteor passes over the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy, on an early autumn morning.
This photograph shows an eruptive prominence on the surface of the sun.
A composite of 24 images, this photograph shows the star Mirach, flanked by the galaxies Messier 31 and Messier 33.
Various nebulae and other objects appear in this long-exposure photograph of the Corona Australis constellation, taken in Namibia.
An aurora drifts across the sky in Sirkka, Finland.
