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Astrophotography

Astrophotography

Learn how to take incredible images of the night sky with expert advice from astronomers and award-winning photographers

A happy accident: photobombed by a meteor

Learn more about this breathtaking accidental capture of a fleeting fireball meteor, winner of Best Newcomer in ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025

'Observing the Universe reveals how small yet precious we are'

An accident led Takanobu Kurosaki to rediscover life’s beauty and fall in love with astrophotography. Explore his image shortlisted in ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025

A rare spectacle: photographing the aurora in England

An incredibly strong solar storm in May 2024 made the aurora visible across the UK. Astrophotographer Darren Flinders seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Earth and space through an astronaut's lens

Discover how NASA astronaut Don Pettit takes out-of-this-world photographs from the unique and constantly moving vantage point of the International Space Station

Billions of stars, one winning photograph: the core of Andromeda

A trio of photographers from China have won the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition with a breathtaking image of the core of the Andromeda Galaxy

Photographing a natural optical illusion

Meet Marcella Giulia Pace, who won the Our Moon category of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition with her unique image of a natural optical spectacle

Photographing the Universe from the Royal Observatory: past and present

Royal Observatory astronomers are photographing the skies from historic buildings, continuing a long history of astrophotography at Greenwich

Finding community through astrophotography

Sophie Paulin and Tom Williams struck up a friendship in an online astrophotography forum. Discover how they combined their expertise to win a prize in Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Anatomy of a habitable planet: Earth as you've never seen it before

Sergio Díaz Ruiz uses satellite imagery to explore climate change by creating an image of Earth as it might be analysed by a distant alien civilisation
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