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Space and Kalakal (2025)photography fans are in for a treat. The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has returned, with its sixteenth edition shortlist featuring a stunning array of photographs.

London's Royal Museums Greenwich received a whopping 3,500 entries from both amateur and professional photographers globally, each of whom captured a breathtaking glimpse of space. The 30 shortlisted entries range from visuals from the Geminid meteor shower to an aurora in the shape of a dragon to ancient supernova remnants. Categories cover everything from stars and nebulae to asteroids to lunar and solar images.

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The official winners of the competition will be revealed in September, but for now the shortlist is an incredible first look at the intersection between art and astronomy. Take a look:

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This image shows an abandoned house in the middle of the Namib Desert with the Milky Way rising above it."Abandoned House" by Stefan Liebermann. Credit: Stefan Liebermann This image shows the details of the Sun’s surface."A Whale Sailing the Sun" by Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau. Credit: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau The Isaac Newton Telescope at the edge of the telescope facility on La Palma."Observations at Night" by Jakob Sahner. Credit: Jakob Sahner Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture."Earth and Milky Way Galaxy Show" by Yoshiki Abe. Credit: Yoshiki Abe SNR G156.2+5.7 is a beautiful and faint supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Auriga."SNR G156.2+5.7, a Faint Supernova Remnant in Auriga" by Bray Falls. Credit: Bray Falls A view of the Eystrahorn Mountain on the night of a KP7 storm."A Night with the Valkyries" by Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis. Credit: Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis An aurora panorama resembling a dragon, pictured in Raufarhöfn, Iceland."Arctic Dragon" by Carina Letelier Baeza. Credit: Carina Letelier Baeza CG4 (Cometary Globule 4) is a complex of nebulosity and dust with a very peculiar shape, located in the southern constellation of Puppis."The Galaxy Devourer" by ShaRA (Shared Remote Astrophotography) Team. Credit: ShaRA (Shared Remote Astrophotography) Team A picture of Snettisham Beach."Serpentine" by Paul Haworth. Credit: Paul Haworth The Pleiades photographed in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain."The Blue Details of M45: The Pleiades" by Sándor Biliczki. Credit: Sándor Biliczki This image shows a close look at IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula."Misty Mountains" by Bence Toth. Credit: Bence Toth The Carina arm of the Milky Way with a statue in the front, photographed in Kunene Region, Namibia."Run to Carina" by Vikas Chander. Credit: Vikas Chander The planet Ceres and the Blowdryer galaxy photographed in Chile."M100 (the Blowdryer Galaxy) and Ceres" by Damon Mitchell Scotting. Credit: Damon Mitchell Scotting This image shows the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the 51 per cent-illuminated Moon."International Space Station Daytime Moon Transit" by Kelvin Hennessy. Credit: Kelvin Hennessy A picture of the solar eclipse from Australia, composed of superimposed images."Total Solar Eclipse" by Gwenaël Blanck. Credit: Gwenaël Blanck M81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy, photographed in Michigan."M81, a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy" by Holden Aimar. Credit: Holden Aimar This is a still image from a time-lapse sequence of a solar prominence in Portugal."Gigantic Solar Prominence in Motion" by Miguel Claro. Credit: Miguel Claro An image taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions."Martian Dementors" by Leonardo Di Maggio. Credit: Leonardo Di Maggio Saturn’s decreasing ring tilt is helping the big orange moon Titan get closer to Saturn from our viewpoint than it has in over a decade."Saturn with Six Moons" by Andy Casely. Credit: Andy Casely The aurora in motion when it turned into something resembling a dragon’s head on a clear night."The Fire-Spitting Dragon" by Moritz Telser. Credit: Moritz Telser

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