Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Some of the Shortlisted entries

A blended moon, a full moon blended with a 73% moon, to highlight the shadow area. It reminds me of the first time I turned binoculars at the moon, it's simply breathtaking.

A Wolf-Rayet bubble around the star WR40.

The Flocculant galaxy NGC 3521, 35 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Leo.

The Jellyfish Nebula IC 443, shot using filters

Our very own Star, and an X1 type flare.

This baby needs few introductions !

There's a lot more that can be found with the link below, but remember, these are images created by astronomer photographers, not Hubble or JWST !! Which makes them all the more amazing and impressive.

Baalbec: Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus, David Roberts, 1840

Horae ad usum Rotomagensem.

July calendar pages (1401-1500) showing harvesting and Leo, the lion.

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.

Wisteria taken from 'Etude de la Plante' by M. P. Verneuil.

Published 1903 by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts.

Getty Research Institute.

archive.org

Giant mosaic called "Tree of Life" on the floor of the palace built by the Umayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdulmalik in Jericho, Palestine.

Djupavik, Iceland 12.06.2023

Roman Legionary Helmet from Brigetio, Hungary, 1st Century CE, The National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Wales

2023 July 2

Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica Image Credit & Copyright: LI Hang

Explanation: It was one of the better skies of this long night. In parts of Antarctica, not only is it winter, but the Sun can spend weeks below the horizon. At China’s Zhongshan Station, people sometimes venture out into the cold to photograph a spectacular night sky. The featured image from one such outing was taken in mid-July of 2015, just before the end of this polar night. Pointing up, the wide angle lens captured not only the ground at the bottom, but at the top as well. In the foreground, a colleague is taking pictures. In the distance, a spherical satellite receiver and several windmills are visible. Numerous stars dot the night sky, including Sirius and Canopus. Far in the background, stretching overhead from horizon to horizon, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Even further in the distance, visible as extended smudges near the top, are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies near our huge Milky Way Galaxy.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230702.html

Life in the Corn ❀

Shell Guide ~ 1956

Glacier National Park, Montana by bdorts

Alcan crossing Yukon, Canada

The comet “Veru”, from a 16th-century treatise on comets. Now known as Swift-Tuttle, the comet’s been described as “the single most dangerous object known to humanity” (though chances of it hitting Earth are still v. v. small).

More from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

Nobody talks about the termites killed by anteaters...... it's right there in the name. ANT eaters. No one even cares that they eat more termites than ants. There's a stigma

STIGMA CLAWS IN YOUR NEST

Stone block from the prehistoric temple at Buġibba, Malta, bearing a carved image of fish. The temple was excavated by the Maltese archaeologist Themistocles Zammit in the early 1920s and dates to the Tarxien phase of Maltese prehistory (ca. 3100-2500 BCE), the last phase prior to the Bronze Age. This block, along with an altar from the temple, is now located in the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta.

The Divje Babe flute, a wind instrument made from the femur of a cave bear and found in a cave near Carkno in Slovenia Thought to be the oldest known musical instrument at 40,000 years old.

Snake by Hōkkyō Sessai, mid-19th century, Japan

Owl, late 18th-early 19th century. Japan

June 2023

Symbiote 

Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860 - 1939)

European goldfinches (Steglitsor), N/D

Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 cm.