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.
Photograph by Brad Goldpaint
Unlit street lamps reveal a spectacular view of the stars above the coastal village of Pagham in West Sussex, England.
Photograph by Andrew Whyte
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies sparkle on a winter night at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, England.
Photograph by Mark McNeill
Not to be outshined by an ultra-bright moon, the aurora borealis glows above a fjord in northern Norway’s Lofoten archipelago.
Photograph by Mikkel Beiter
The aurora borealis illuminates the hills fringing the stone circle at Castlerigg in Cumbria, England.
Photograph by Matthew James Turner
Comprised of twenty separate pictures, this image shows the Milky Way Galaxy against a field of radio telescopes in Ming’antu, China.
Photography by Tianhong Li
This image of the moon's surface reveals rarely seen details.
Photograph by Jordi Delpeix Borrell
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.
Photograph by Ferenc Szémár
Details of the moon are illuminated in this multi-exposure photograph taken during a total solar eclipse in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Photograph by Peter Ward
The spiral galaxy NGC 3251 blazes with color in this long-exposure image.
Photograph by Steven Mohr
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.
Photograph by César Blanco
The dark summer sky glows orange over Limfjord in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark.
Photograph by Ruslan Merzlyakov
A long exposure highlights the shifting color and brightness of the moon during a total lunar eclipse in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China.
Photograph by Chuanjin Su
Venus appears as a graceful sliver in this infra-red image taken with a digital video camera just before sunset in Hertfordhire, England.
Photograph by Martin Lewis
A portrait of the Lambda Centauri Nebula.
Photograph by Rolf Wahl Olsen
A meteor passes over the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy, on an early autumn morning.
Photograph by Fabian Dalpiaz
This photograph shows an eruptive prominence on the surface of the sun.
Photograph by Stuart Green
A composite of 24 images, this photograph shows the star Mirach, flanked by the galaxies Messier 31 and Messier 33.
Photograph by Raul Villaverde Fraile
Various nebulae and other objects appear in this long-exposure photograph of the Corona Australis constellation, taken in Namibia.
Photograph by Mario Cogo
An aurora drifts across the sky in Sirkka, Finland.
Photograph by Nicolas Lefaudeux