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The 2025 David Malin astrophotography awards showcase stunning images of celestial phenomena, including supernovas, satellites, and solar sprites, with winners in various categories such as deep sky, solar system, and nightscapes, highlighting the beauty and diversity of the universe.
The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024 has announced its winners, with Dr. Angela Albi's image of a shark hunt in the Maldives taking the top prize in the Behavior category. The competition, in collaboration with the Royal Photographic Society, highlights images that reveal hidden scientific phenomena. Other category winners include a secretary bird's third eyelid in the Ecology and Environmental Science category, and the Heart and Soul nebulae in the Astronomy category. The contest showcases the intersection of art and science through photography.
The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition has announced the winner, showcasing the hidden microscopic world on an autumnal leaf. The competition celebrates the power of photography in conveying scientific phenomena. The categories included Astronomy, Behavior, Earth Science and Climatology, Ecology and Environmental Science, and Microimaging. The overall winner captured a microorganism on a leaf, while other notable entries featured a tussle between rattlesnakes, a school of fish above a coral reef, and a crack in the Corinth Canal. The competition was launched in 2015 to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, the oldest continual scientific journal in the world.
NASA has released four new composites of the cosmos, created by combining data from some of its most powerful instruments, including the Chandra Observatory, the James Webb and Hubble telescopes, and the Spitzer telescope's final missions. The images provide unprecedented detail of iconic nebulae and galaxies, including Messier 74, the Phantom Galaxy, and the Pillars of Creation in Messier 16, also known as the Eagle Nebula. The composites highlight the enormity of the cosmos and the swirling networks of gas and dust that surround stars.
Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel have created a stunning composite image of the sun's atmosphere, using approximately 90,000 individual images to showcase the usually invisible solar corona. The image, called "Fusion of Helios," blends science and art to reveal the textured, fiery details of the sun's outermost layer. The image features jets of plasma known as spicules and a towering column that stretches the same height as 14 planet Earths. Prints of the image are available in both McCarthy's and Guenzel's shops.